18约伯和他三个朋友—以利法、比勒达和琐法—都在善恶知识树的范围里。……神要把他们从那个范围里拯救出来,摆到生命树的范围里。神必须作的头一件事,就是把约伯剥夺、销毁并拆毁,使他在受苦之下成为一无所是。这成为一个根据,使神能用神圣的三一重建约伯,使约伯能成为一个新人,神新造的一部分,以完成神永远的经纶,使神得着彰显(约伯记生命读经,二四一、三四至三五、二四○、四七、六八页)。
18Job and his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, were in the realm of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…God was trying to rescue them from that realm and put them into the realm of the tree of life. The first thing God had to do was to strip Job, consume him, and tear him down so that he would become nothing as a person under suffering. This became the base for God to rebuild Job with the Divine Trinity, that Job could be a new man, a part of God’s new creation, to fulfill God’s eternal economy for God’s expression. (Life-study of Job, pp. 197, 29, 196, 39-40, 57)