How to respond or encourage through eight beatitudes and Ethics of Job?

- The Beatitudes are the central moral teaching of the Christian faith. Although the Ten Commandments
may be more familiar to some as the set of moral guidelines, the Beatitudes are distinctively Christian.
“Following Jesus Christ involves keeping the Commandments.

The Beatitudes are a set of eight blessed attitudes given by Jesus to help people live their lives in the
right spirit. They are a blueprint for Christian living, and are meant to be incorporated into daily life. The
Beatitudes teach how to treat others and how to act. They are relevant to every area of life, from how
we care for those who have less, to our relationship to the earth. The Beatitudes teach that people are
blessed even in hard times because they will receive eternity in heaven. They also teach that people are
blessed for having honorable qualities such as being meek, righteous, merciful, pure, and peacemakers.
The Beatitudes are antithetical to conventional wisdom or common sense in our present culture.

In the midst of Job’s second lament (Job 29-42), he unveils a significant treatise on ethical behavior,
which in some ways anticipates Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount” (Matthew 5-7). Although in the form of
justifying his own practices, Job gives some principles that apply to many areas of our work lives:

-Avoid falsehood and deceit (Job 31:5)

-Don’t let the ends justify the means, expressed as not allowing the heart (principles) to be lured astray
by the eyes (expediency) (Job 31:7)

-Practice generosity (Job 31:16-23)

-Don’t become complacent during times of prosperity (Job 31:24-28)

-Don’t make your success depend on the failure of others (Job 31:29)

-Admit your mistakes (Job 31:33)

-Don’t try to get something for nothing, but pay properly for the resources you consume (Job 31:38-40)

God must have a plan for everything, and Job's suffering must surely have a greater purpose than to
simply punish a good man. Ultimately, Job's faith prevails over his suffering. In the Bible, Job, who was
an unremarkable man except for his wealth and faith, came to represent the power of faith through
adversity.