By What Standard?
An Analysis of the Book of Job

R.J. Rushdoony wrote,

The book of Job made me a Calvinist. The book of Job made clear to me by what standard we must understand the whole of life. The book of Job therefore is of significance to our contemporary scene because it deals precisely with this problem of standard, of measure, of yardstick or rule whereby man shall understand.

In the book of Job we find a problem which is commonplace in human experience. While what is posed for us in the book of Job is a particular and special test of the man Job, yet the experience therein can be duplicated in the lives of countless men. Many a godly man has been afflicted as Job was afflicted, has seen his life’s work dissolved by catastrophe, has seen the wicked prosper while he has been brought low, humbled and destroyed, has cried out with Job in agony of spirit and bitterness and wondered at the ways of God that permitted such things to come to pass. The conclusion that Job reached therefore, whereby he understood the standard of God in dealing with himself and with all men, becomes especially relevant to our generation.

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