IMITATE THEIR FAITH/JOB

 "I WILL NOT RENOUNCE MY INTEGRITY!"

He sat on the ground, his body covered from head to foot with painful boils, or ulcers. Picture him, his head bowed, shoulders slumped, alone, barely able to summon the energy to shoo away the flies  that buzzed around him.  Sitting amid ashes to signify his mourning, he could only scrape his diseased skin wit shard of pottery.  He had lost so much, had fallen so far!  His friends, neighbors, and relatives abandoned him. People, even children, mocked  him. He thought that his God, Jehovah, had turned against him as well, but he was wrong about that. - JOB 2:8; 19:18, 22. 

This was Job.  God said of him: "There is no one like him on earth." (Job 1:8) Centuries later, Jeghovah still thought of Job as outstanding among men of righteousness. - EZEKIEL 14:14, 20. 

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