THE BOOK OF
JOB
A. B. Fay, DSD
Divine
Science Bible Textbook
Colorado College of Divine Science
Denver, 1920.
This textbook was intended by
the author to be used in conjunction with
the Bible. Original page numbers and
margin references are shown in brackets [
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There is a doubt as to when Job lived,
probably about the seventh or fourth
century B.C. It is an allegory and there
is an application to be taken from it for
ourselves, an inner meaning which will
help us.
[Job 1:6.]
We are all sons of God, and we come to
present ourselves before God. Each soul
can say, “I am the son of
God”, but can I go before God with
a perfectly unmixed consciousness? I
think very few of us do this.
Personality is called Satan sometimes;
any claim of separation from God can be
called Satan.
Think of the omnipresence of God, let
that be the basis of your decision; then
ask yourself if there is a spot in the
universe where you are willing to say God
is not! Sometimes we think of Satan as
unbelief. Belief and unbelief are simply
conditions of our own mentality. To the
extent that one expresses anything lower
than perfection there is unbelief; that
would account for everything [201] that
comes to us. It was thought that Satan
brought all these things upon Job.
Jesus sent the seventy out and they
came back, saying that even the devils
were subject to them and were rejoicing
in what they were able to do in the
Divine name, and Jesus said to them, not
to rejoice in that, but in that their
names were written in heaven. That means
they were sons of God.
We get the fruit of our own belief
because we act upon our belief. Rise out
of your sense of limitation, such as
pride, grief, sickness, and so on. To be
well permanently, we must have a basis
for our health. Open your eyes to see the
harmony of God’s Presence. We
all have the Divine inherencies or
qualities that belong to God. Let us not
seek praise, it is personal. It is the
individuality we are bearing witness to
as the expression of God. The body of
God’s perfection is here in
me. Acknowledge God’s
wholeness. You do not possess a thing
consciously until you claim it!
Job shows the development of a soul
from the worshiping of an outside or
personal God to the finding of the God
within.
Three friends were on the same plane
of understanding as Job, but he unfolds
away from them. Three here, stands for
collection of beliefs. As long as men
have whirlwinds within themselves
(strife) there will be whirlwinds
without. Satan, [202] human personality
claiming something for itself from God.
John 8:44.
Job: 1:1-5--
1st: Fear of God, offered
sacrifices.
2nd: Belief that God is
changeable.
3rd: Did not stand, but sat (2:8) in
the ashes.
4th: Duality, belief in evil.
5th: Fear, personal.
Fear is the beginning of wisdom. Job
believed this story of himself, it was a
part of his development, as a type.
Fourth verse means his light, this
day, beginning to light. Each individual
knows he has these two attitudes, fear
and good, an argument between God and
Satan. Satan, adversary, unbelief. The
highest never argues, pure consciousness
knows.
[Job 1:1]
Job’s opinion of himself. He
based his perfection on what he had and
what he had done, but the real basis of
Perfection is in God. What I am is
the basis. Job listened to the argument.
If everything is swept away, it is
according to Law, and after
listening he had the experiences
resulting from the argument; when we
waver in thinking, we always have unhappy
experiences.
[Job 1:21]
“The Lord gave and the Lord hath
taken away; blessed be the name of the
Lord.” This statement has become a
fixed formula in many systems [203] of
religion. We do not believe the Lord ever
takes away anything. Yet was it not
better for Job to say that than to
complain of God? In a degree that was
good, but later he says, “I have
uttered things which I understood
not.” That is one of them.
The Lord is changeless and does not
take away. God is always giving, but the
turning is on our side, our attitude, the
soul’s attitude toward God.
When our eyes are opened to
unity, our loved ones will not go
beyond our sight.
[Job 2:4-5]
Satan touches Job’s body. He has
been very complaisant under the loss of
family and cattle, but Satan says,
“All that a man hath will he give
for his life, but touch his bones and his
flesh and he will curse thee to thy
face.”
Why have we always been taught that
God sends sickness and that we must be
patient under it? If God sends sickness
for a purpose, and we are to be patient
under it, why do we try to get rid of
it?
[Job 2:7]
“So Satan went forth from the
presence of the Lord, and smote Job with
sores and boils.” Job forgot the
presence of the Lord; Satan could not
have afflicted Job with sores in
the presence of the Lord; in the
consciousness of the presence of the
Lord. Of course, being away from
the presence of the Lord is only in
belief.
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[Job 2:8]
When we find our bodies stricken, lift
up thought, take the positive stand and
do not waver. Job sat in ashes; gave
up.
[Job 2:9]
Then his wife said, “Dost thou
still hold fast thine integrity? Renounce
God, and die.”
[Job 2:10]
Job answered, “Thou speakest as
one of the foolish women speaketh. Shall
we receive good at the hand of God and
shall we not receive evil?” Job did
not rebuke God, but saw two powers, good
and evil, duality.
Job’s three friends came to him.
This was the condition of his own
mentality, nothing from the external; no
friend can come to us whom our own
mentality does not bring. It is what we
are giving out that comes back; our first
work is with ourselves.
Now these three friends came and sat
in silence seven days. Seven means a
perfect period. After seven days of
silence, Job cursed the day he was born.
Then Eliphaz said, “The judgments
of God fall on the wicked,” and
tells Job not to despise the chastisement
of the Almighty; that he who sins is
punished; he urges Job to accept his
punishment and value it. “Whom the
Lord loveth, he chasteneth.” What
is chastening? It is purifying. Should we
despise the consuming fire? Read Job
5:19-27.
Bildad shows how God punishes the
wicked and preserves the righteous; that
is the consuming [205] fire. Bildad had
Job’s punishment in mind, but he
spoke a great truth. The destruction of
everything that hurts or harms is the
working of the law.
Job acknowledges the power of God, but
says, “My soul is weary of
life.” He is rising in
consciousness, he is speaking to
God, telling him to let him alone, to let
him have a little comfort.
[Job 2:11]
Outside friends mean all the thoughts
that believed in evil came up.
[Job 2:13]
Sank to his level, sat down with
him.
[Job 3:1]
A day, breaking of light; cursed his
day, rejected the old light and was
willing to give up what he knew, old
beliefs, a turning point.
[Job 4:3-9]
Words of three friends, condemnation
and rebuke, condemnatory thoughts within
Job. Do not condemn yourself.
[Job 5:17]
These spoke according to their
light.
[Job 6:24, 7:16]
Job answers, beginning of his
acknowledgment of erring.
[Job 8]
God is dealing justly with Job, but
Job gradually changes his
attitude, which is the cause of his
trouble. Begins to see that it is not
profitable to know so much that is not
true. Job did not need condemnatory
thoughts; the friends did not tell him to
rise.
[Job 9:4-28]
Job confesses God’s power, and
expresses fear again.
[Job 10:7]
Maintains his integrity.
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[Job 11:7]
Zophar reproves Job for justifying
himself, “Canst thou find out the
Almighty unto perfection?”
[Job 11:17]
Duality shines all through this, these
men are a mixture of Truth and
misconceptions.
[Job 12:2-3]
Job gets sarcastic, “No doubt
but ye are the people, and wisdom shall
die with you. But I have understanding as
well as you; I am not inferior to you:
yea, who knoweth not such things as
these?”
[Job 12:10-13]
Praises God for what he is and what he
does.
[Job 13:3-5]
Job silences his beliefs or voices
that condemn; rises to greater faith in
God.
[Job 13:15]
We are trying to know God,
trust, think of life, not
death.
[Job 13:23]
Make me to know my
transgressions and my sins, not bemoan
it, but lift it up by understanding. To
count up is a low plane of development.
Try to see the other, all in God.
[Job 14:1]
“Man that is born of
woman,” not of God, shows unbelief.
Man is born of God.
[Job 14:16]
God takes care of sin.
[Job 15: 6,8,10]
Eliphaz, aged men stand for old
beliefs. Job is speaking on a higher
plane.
[Job 16:2-5]
Job reproves the three friends.
[Job 16:12]
At ease, Job finds out he is
“at ease,” though not from a
basis of understanding.
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[Job 16:19]
Job rises to a clear realization, he
catches a glimpse of his real self, his
individuality.
[Job 17]
Job appeals from men to God.
[Job 17:13-16]
He see that God does not send
affliction.
[Job 18:5-6]
“Light of wicked put out,”
the claim that personality (Satan)
makes.
[Job 18:18-21]
“Satan shall be driven from
light into darkness; they that come after
shall be astonished at his day, as they
that went before were affrighted.”
Astonished at the power given the claim
of personality when the consciousness of
individuality has come.
[Job 19:2,6-9]
Complains of cruelty, but Job begins
to lay down his personality and to see
that he cannot claim anything as Job, but
of God.
[Job 19:14,20-21]
Beginning to hear the call that he
must drop personal beliefs; his appeal to
the pity of his friends even while
protesting against their reproaches.
[Job 19: 25-27]
A wonderful conviction of Truth.
“I know my Redeemer liveth, and he
shall stand at the latter day (later
consciousness of Truth) upon the
earth.” Even his body is lifted up.
“Yet in my flesh shall I see
God, whom I shall see for myself; my
reins be consumed with earnest desire for
that day”--the light of
understanding. “Latter day,”
later consciousness of Truth. “All
flesh shall know God,” shall be
known as divine.
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[Job 19:28-29, 21:3,23-27]
“Root of the matter is found in
me.” Job is seeing that the
conditions are the result of his own
belief. “Be ye afraid of the
sword.” The sword of Truth.
Matt.10:34. Job is reasoning from the
surface conditions of life; sees for
himself the end of personality in the
grave. Isa.14:11 It is its own destroyer.
“God is no respecter of
persons,” each soul is born of God
but the unfoldment into the Truth of
birthright is attended by many man-made
laws, beliefs and opinions. Ecc.7:29.
[Job 21:3-30]
All wickedness (ignorance) shall be
destroyed. 1Cor.3:15.
[Job 22:21-25,28,30]
Eliphaz’s third speech is a
powerful appeal of the spirit of Job for
realization of God’s power and
love; even to his own individual
expression of his conscious unity with
God. “Thou shalt also decree a
thing, and it shall be established unto
thee; and the light (or understanding)
shall shine upon thy ways.”
[Job 22:21-23,26,29]
“Acquaint now thyself with Him
(God) and be at peace--receive the
law from His mouth and lay up His
words in thy heart; thou shalt put away
iniquity (ignorance) far from thy
tabernacles; then shalt thou lay
up gold as dust--the Almighty shall be
thy defense and thou shalt have plenty of
silver.” Deut.8:18. “For thou
shalt have thy delight in the
Almighty,” in the consciousness of
the Omnipresence.
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“When men are cast down,”
thou shalt have compassion, lift them up,
even the “humble person,” the
one who has the least realization of the
truth of their relation to God, their
Father.
“Deliver the island of the
innocent”; by the purity of
“their hands” wilt thou take
by the hand those who believe they are
separated (island) from their Source,
God, and assure them of the truth of
Omnipresence.
[Job 23:2-16,10]
Job’s earnest desire to know
God.
[Job 25]
Bildad, personality still claiming a
place, declares that man cannot be
justified before God.
[Job 25:4]
Man is not born of woman, man is born
of God.
[Job 25:6]
“Worm of dust” attitude is
being pushed into the background of
ignorance, whence it came. The
realization of absolute identity with
God, our Father, could mean only a deep
and abiding happiness.
[Job 26:8-10]
Shows God, the Infinite, bindeth up
waters in thick clouds.
[Job 27:6]
Job holds fast to righteousness, right
thinking.
[Job 28:1-6]
Man’s skill in finding treasures
of the earth. Wisdom is a greater
treasure, whose source is God.
[Job 31:40]
Job had not yet risen to the
heights.
[Job 32:1]
His friends cease to answer. Passing
of Job’s thoughts out of
condemnation.
Elihu was ready to put out words of
condemnation. They cannot give Job a ray
of light.
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Elihu represents the new recognition
of Spirit; the new voice, the new
vision.
[Job 32:6-10]
“Multitude of years
should teach wisdom--but there is
a spirit in man and the inspiration of
the Almighty giveth them
understanding--great men are not
always wise; neither do the
aged understand judgment.”
Truth is uncovered by understanding. He
who turns to the Secret Place in his own
divine nature for all knowledge will walk
with God. “All thy children shall
be taught of God.” Isa.54:13;
Jer.31:33-34.
[Job 33:1-5]
Elihu showing the higher things in
order to stand up.
[Job 34:11]
Man receiving according to his own
attitude. Our own way of looking at Truth
is our conception. If we did not have
Truth, we could not have conceptions.
[Job 34:15]
All belief in “flesh” as
something apart from Spirit will perish
and man shall turn again to his Source,
the one eternal substance.
[Job 35]
The Presence, the Spirit of God, is to
speak to Job.
[Job 36:4]
“He that is perfect in knowledge
is with thee.”
[Job 38:1,3-8,36]
The call is, get up out of the
ashes. God sets forth Job’s
ignorance of creation, constitution of
earth, light, and so on.
[Job 40:6-7]
First words of God that Job heard.
[Job 42:2-5,7]
Job answereth the Lord. Jehovah
condemns Job’s three friends.
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[Job 42:10]
Job prayed for his friends, redemption
of condemnatory thoughts. We must redeem
every thought. The Law of God found Job
when he dropped the personal
attitude.
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