Acting in Fear: A Look at Job's Life
In order to understand the book of Job, we must first realize that Job didn’t have the revelation of Satan as we do today; however, he did have a knowledge of sin. Because of this, Job made sacrifices as a means of worship to God, as a covering for the sins his family committed.
The Bible tells us Job continually made the same sacrifice for his children. The s...acrifice was to be made only once. Because he did it continually, he sacrificed in unbelief instead of faith; as a result, the thing he feared came upon him (Job 3:25).

Since Job was not aware of a personal devil, he naturally believed everything that happened to him, whether good or bad, came from God. That’s why Job made the statement “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away…” (Job 1:21). He had no knowledge that Satan was the thief; he thought God was!

We understand that Job finally realized the truth of his plight by the statement he made in Job 42:3, “…therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.” Job had