Job in Modern Language

I have been looking for ways to use the internet as an encouragement for people that are going through suffering.
In my life I have had a few circumstances that at the time were times of great suffering, but have seen many blessings come as a result.
Job is the quintessential example of someone who God brings through suffering and latter is blessed because of his faithfulness through that suffering.
When I was ten years old I nearly died from apendicitis because my parents just thought I had the flu for a five days. later that year my three month old brother died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Both of these circumstances gave me who just recently had given my life to Jesus a time of testing for my faith.
When I was a teen ager 14-17 I was diganosed with kyphoses(curvature of the spine) and I had to wear a back brace in order to "straighten me up" as my Grandpa liked to say.
Later when I was 19 I again found myself lying on my back for several months, when I broke my femur bone getting thrown from an ATV. This of course was not pleasant but it got me doing a lot of reading and thinking about my future. That accident I believe was a catalyst for me to decide to pursue a college degree.
The message of Job as well as the message of the entire Bible is summed up here by Jesus in John 16:33 "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
God allows suffering so that we can find our comfort in Him. He allows us to be weak so that we can find our strenth in Him.
So I am going through Job and paraphrasing it so that, we can be blessed by this story.

Verse 6-12

One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also was among them. The Lord said to Satan, "Where have you been." So Satan answered the Lord and said, "I was going to different places on the earth and moving around."



Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you taken deep thought of my servant Job, there is none to be compared to him in the whole world, for he is a righteous man who is above reproach in everything he does. He is marked by a reverent awe of God, and power to continually turn away from evil."

Then Satan answered the Lord and said, "Does Job revere God without a reason." Have you not put your protection on him, and on his household, and on everything he has, protecting it completely.? You have made his work to prosper, and increased his possession. But if you would now reach out Your hand and take all of his possessions, he will most asuradly speak cursing to you, right in front of you."

And the Lord said to Satan, "Look, all of his possessions I put under your authority; yet do not come close to Job himself"

Then Satan went away from the Lord.

Verse 3-5

His sons would get together and hold banquets, on a rotating basis, at each of their houses. They also invited their sisters to enjoy the drinks and well prepared cuisine. When these parties where over, Job would set them apart to God, by regularly rising early and offering a burnt offering for each of them. For he said to himself "My sons might have sinned and cursed God in their hearts."

Job in modern language verse 1-3

Many Years ago in the Middle East, near present day Jordan, there lived a man named Job. He was a righteous man who was above reproach in everything he did. He was marked by a reverent awe of God, and power to continually turn away from evil.

Over the course of his life he was blessed with seven sons and three daughters. He also was the owner of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, one thousand oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a multitude of servants. So that he was the most distiguished man in all the east.