In order to fully appreciate the book of Job, it is important to read the whole book first.
The book opens with Satan being found in the courts of heaven, with God challenging him to what he was up to.
Job 1:1. In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2:He had seven sons and three daughters, 3:and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East. 4:His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. 5:When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular custom. 6:One day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them. 7:The LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming through the earth and going to and fro in it." 8:Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no-one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil
God sets Satan a challenge to test and prove the Godly qualities of Job. Satan is allowed to smite Job with anything except to take his life.
Job is subjected to a continually amount of persecution, including the loss of his whole family, and illnesses of all kinds. Job is left with few friends who make false accusations against him.
Job stayed faithful to his God, with great blessings to follow as the result.
Finally the Lord intervenes and Job is released from the extended persecution. We read in the final chapter Job 42:10 to 17 - After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before. 11:All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. 12:The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13:And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14:The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15:Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers. 16:After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17:And so he died, old and full of years.
Truth and righteousness will bring Blessing.
Further studies to be added to this sight at a later date.
