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A particular Existential Test from Tropes in your Course from Job

The book of Job in the Old Testament is one of the very most esoteric books of Wisdom Literature. The Devil makes a pact with God, that is, servant Job is the most devout and most loyal to God because he's blessed him with prosperity. The Devil challenges God to allow him eliminate his possessions and also be afflicted. Job will turn against God. Then God allows the Devil to test Job. Job's material possessions and his students are recinded and he is afflicted bodily. Yet Job remains steadfastly loyal to God and in then end God restores to Job all what is lost.

The Devil in his conversations with God says: you pamper Job like a puppy and make certain nothing ever happens to his family or possessions and bless everything he does. This conversation a simile, notes the nature of the Devil that is envy and hatred. The Devil wants to challenge the possessive belongingness of God. This intentionality is a negative archetype. Christianity and Judaism are religions inherent with the Binary divide of God and the Devil. Hatred, envy, covetousness, lust and murder are possessions of an adverse archetype. Atheistic existentialism does away with the thought of evil and exhorts a moral relativism. It's puzzling why God lets to rein an adverse archetype in Job's life.

When Job has lost his children and his material possessions, he replies: 'naked I come from the Mother's womb and naked I will return to the womb of the earth.' The womb of our planet is a metaphor. Here Job puts our planet in a feminine archetype, our planet being truly a mother, a womb.

When Job is afflicted with sores and ulcers, he laments: 'blank out the night time I was conceived. Allow it to be described as a black hole in space.' It's true that black holes do exist in space. However used metaphorically it points out to a dismal abyss, a hole of angst where light gets trapped.

Again Job complains 'may those who are good at cursing, curse your day and unleash the beast Leviathan on it' ;.The interpretation of this trope is both poetic and apocalyptic. As a poetic trope 유흥알바, it embodies a woe, a pathos to be signified. As an apocalyptic metaphor we find mention of the Leviathan as a beast coming out from the sea in the book of Revelation. A cloned animal-human could be transgenic beast. Leviathan could also signify the entry of warring nations from the sea.

One of the friends of Job asks him: "Will a truly innocent person wind up as scrap heap"? Dirt and squalor is manifested in the metaphor. And also this an accusation that lays to test Job's innocence. Job's friend replies: 'God the Sovereign trusts no-one and then how can he trust humans that are as fragile as moths'? As fragile as moths is definitely an existential simile. Considering it in a spiritual sense, we are lacking an expression of understanding why God allows the Devil to compromise with Job's integrity. From an existential nihilist point of view, the metaphor conveys a meaningless life. Man could be in comparison to Camus' metaphor: the myth of the Sisyphus.

Job replies to his friends: 'my misery could be weighed; you may pile the whole bitter load on scales; it will undoubtedly be heavier compared to the sand in the sea. The poison arrows of God are within me' ;.Scales connote the weighing down of angst. Job is indulging in narcissism of negativity. Angst being heavier compared to the sea is hyperbolic. God's decision to be unresponsive to Job's plight is conveyed in the metaphor: poison arrows. For Sartre, the existential atheist this is incongruous; a nihilist, existentialist should have the ability to bear his / her own sorrows.

Job says that 'God can squash me such as for instance a bug. Do I have the nerves of steel? Do you think I am made of iron?' The existential dilemma of Job being truly a helpless victim is poignant in this portrayal. Job is grudgingly yielding to God's will. This makes me ask the question was God, Christ like when he dealt with Job? Why did God of the Old Testament choose to be a different God compared to the God of the New Testament Christ? Job is succumbing to the pathos of a weight he can't bear. For Sartre, the God that you lament is yourself. The tyranny to be in angst is a plight that humans have to see on earth.

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