15约伯所达到的全是虚空,并没有完成神的定旨,也没有满足神的愿望。因此,神对约伯有爱的关切,而在天上举行两次会议,讨论如何对付约伯(一6~8,二1~3)。……在道德上,约伯很好。按照人的看法,约伯没有问题。神甚至向撒但夸奖约伯如何好(一8,二3)。唯有神知道约伯有一个需要,就是他缺少神。因着神对约伯有爱的关切,所以就在天上举行会议讨论约伯。……至终,神的目的是要使约伯成为属神的人(提前六11,提后三17),充满了作神具体化身的基督,成为神的丰满,好在基督里彰显神,而不是一个高道德标准的人,有天然的完全、天然的正直和天然的纯全,那是约伯想要维持并持守的(伯二3、9上)(约伯记生命读经,一二、二○、一三、三五页)。 15What Job had attained was altogether vanity. It did not fulfill God’s purpose, and it did not satisfy God’s desire. Thus, God was lovingly concerned for Job and held two councils in heaven concerning how to deal with Job (1:6-8; 2:1-3). Ethically speaking, Job was very good. According to human eyes, there was no problem with Job. God even boasted to Satan regarding how good Job was (1:8; 2:3). Only God knew that Job had a need, that he was short of God. Because of His loving concern for Job, God held a council in the heavens to talk about Job. Eventually, God’s intention was to make Job a man of God (1 Tim. 6:11; 2 Tim. 3:17), filled with Christ, the embodiment of God, to be the fullness of God for the expression of God in Christ, not a man of the high standard of ethics in Job’s natural perfection, natural uprightness, and natural integrity, which Job attempted to maintain and hold (Job 2:3, 9a). (Lifestudy of Job, pp. 10, 17, 11, 29)