Job 2:9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die. Job 2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
Don’t be too critical or harsh on Mrs. Job. Remember she went through this trial as well as he. Her seven babies died when the wind of destruction came. The cattle and possessions she and her husband labored all their lives for, are gone. And now she watched her husband suffer as he scraped his sores with a potsherd. Those who were their friends came to offer critical advise. Her heart aches as she experienced all these events.
Job did not call her foolish, only that her spoken reaction was a foolish one. Other men’s wives would have been foolish in their reaction to such a trial. He reminds her that together they had receive good from God’s hand and it is only right that they receive what all men deserve. Mrs. Job submitted to her husband’s leadership and never spake in opposition from that moment on.
Pr 31:10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
