If He did, then allowing Job to suffer is a strange way to show it!
Job's children were completely expendable, no love to them was shown at all!
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A related question did he really love Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son? Those feelings before the moment were real. God's love means an understanding that your life, time and resources mean nothing next to supporting his great and holy name!
I always thought the Bible story of Job made Jehovah look like a cold hearted, egotistical father who had no real love for his children. To test them this way and let them suffer cannot be forgiven be some kind of chickenshit little bonus in Jobs pay envelope. A sick lesson in Old Testament/Taliban thinking.
Where's the Bible Thumping Brigade to tell everyone that we're interpreting it wrong?
The irony of the Job account is when YHWH puts Job in his place, he uses 3,000 yr old cosmological science to do so (including references to the firmament, the great store houses of snow and hail, etc). Read it again, and understand that YHWH is not being "poetic", but simply ignorant over climatology. After all, the writers of the Job story didn't know what we know today about how the World operates; so they relied on the ideas from Egyptian and Babylonians for their 'science'.
jgnat......did I detect a hint of sarcasm?...