Job 2:10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speakest. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
After the second time “bad things” happened to Job, he held to his faith in God and did not sin. Satan had made a bet with God, that Job would curse God if he was afflicted with pain and sickness in his body. The temptation was even stronger the second time, for his own wife urged Job to “curse God and die.” He even suggested that she was like an unbelieving heathen (“foolish” means unbelieving).
God is still God, and God is still good, no matter what circumstances we are experiencing. This is strong faith in the promises of God. The Book of Job wrestles with the age-old question: “Why do bad things happen to good people?” This is a false and misleading question for two reasons: the words bad and good. 1) Bad things are not evil unless they lead us to blame God and lose faith and eternal life, and, 2) Good people don’t exist (“call no man good…except God”) until Jesus makes us righteous. God promises to lead us out of the temptation to misbelief and despair and to deliver us from the evil of the bad thing.
I have to learn the lesson that Job learned: God is always good and I am always bad; He is holy and I am the sinner. Therefore, I repent and believe the gospel. Then I can confess with Job: I gladly receive good from the hand of God and at the same time I will be receiving evil, though not from the hand of God. God is always and only good, and He even knows how to turn evil into ultimate and eternal good. “All things work together for good.”