So let, h- let's have a look at what he says there.

Okay, okay.

Now, first of all, he reminisces about how good his life was in the past before all these disasters struck him, and this takes up the whole of chapter 29.

Uh, uh, at that time, he believed that God was with him and blessed him.

Let's have a look at Job 29, verses 4 to 6.

There, he says, "Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God's intimate friendship blessed my house, when the Almighty was with me and my children were around me, when my path was drenched with cream and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil."

What do you think they are, Mike?

Oh, gosh.

Yeah, I must admit I've always interpreted these verses as referring mainly to suffering for the gospel.

Well, that may be the main emphasis in these verses.

But in chapter 5, James returns to the subject and widens it to consider other suffering.

And he actually uses Job as an example.

This is what he writes.

Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

As you know, we consider blessed those who have persevered.

He refused to blame God in spite of his wife urging him to curse God and die.