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The whole Job story pisses me off.
God should know the outcome yet still gets in a pissing contest with Satan to ruin some guys life. Why?
And then gives him a 'replacement' family in compensation and somehow we're supposed to believe it's all better.
I remember sitting in Sunday School as a kid and everyone around me is talking about how good a story this is and how Job ended up even better off than he was before, but all I could think about is God deciding to murder my family and then thinking that some strangers would just replace them.
It's just so... alien. Creepy Eldritch being playing with humans like we're dolls. It was terrifying to me and I couldn't understand why the people around me didn't see it that way.
It makes a lot more sense if you look at the Bible as a religious fanfic subreddit, and its writers as early 2010s creepypasta authors (think Jeff The Killer). The writer was probably pissed at Job and wrote the story to vent (the biblical equivalent of drawing someone as a soyjak).