创一26 神说，我们要按着我们的形像，照着我们的样式造人……。

　　伯二3 ……你曾用心察看我的仆人约伯没有？……他仍然持守他的纯全。

　　约壹三2 亲爱的，我们现在是神的儿女，将来如何，还未显明；但我们晓得祂若显现，我们必要像祂；因为我们必要看见祂，正如祂所是的。

　　约伯记一章一节说，“乌斯地有一个人名叫约伯；这人完全且正直，敬畏神，远离恶事。”完全，与我们里面的人有关；正直，与我们外面的人有关。不仅如此，正直也是不弯曲，不偏斜。约伯不仅里面完全、外面正直，更在积极一面敬畏神，在消极一面远离恶事。然而，……神造人不仅是要人敬畏祂、不犯错。圣经告诉我们，神乃是按着自己的形像，照着自己的样式造人，为叫人彰显祂（创一26）。这是一切积极事物中最积极的事。……最积极的事乃是彰显神。彰显神比敬畏神和远离恶事更高（约伯记生命读经，一一至一二页）。

　　Gen. 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…

　　Job 2:3 …Have you considered My servant Job?…He still holds fast his integrity…

　　1 John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been manifested what we will be. We know that if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is.

　　Job 1:1 says, “There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and this man was perfect and upright, and he feared God and turned away from evil.” Being perfect is related to our inner man, and being upright is related to our outer man. Furthermore, to be upright means that we are not crooked or biased. In addition to being perfect inwardly and upright outwardly, Job feared God positively and turned away from evil negatively. However,…God did not create man merely to fear Him without doing anything wrong. The Bible tells us that God created man in His own image and after His likeness that man may express Him (Gen. 1:26). This is the most positive thing among all positive things….The most positive thing is to express God. To express God is higher than fearing God and turning away from evil. (Life-study of Job, p. 9)

　　另一个说到约伯这人的辞是“纯全”。在约伯记二章三节耶和华告诉撒但说，约伯“仍然持守他的纯全”。在九节约伯的妻子问他：“你仍然持守你的纯全么？”在二十七章五节约伯对他的朋友说，“我至死必不丢弃自己的纯全。”最后在三十一章六节约伯宣告说，“愿神……知道我的纯全。”纯全是完全和正直的总和，是完全加上正直的总和。就约伯而言，纯全是他这人的总体表现。在性格上，他是完全、正直的；在道德上，他有高标准的纯全。

　　 约伯敬畏神，远离恶事，神要得着像他这样的人并不容易。然而约伯所达到的全是虚空，并没有完成神的定旨，也没有满足神的愿望。因此，神对约伯有爱的关切。……在道德上，约伯很好。按照人的看法，约伯没有问题。神甚至向撒但夸奖约伯如何好（一8，二3）。唯有神知道约伯有一个需要，就是他缺少神。

　　至终，神的目的是要使约伯成为属神的人（提前六11，提后三17），充满了作神具体化身的基督，成为神的丰满，好在基督里彰显神，而不是一个高道德标准的人，有天然的完全、天然的正直和天然的纯全，那是约伯想要维持并持守的（伯二3、9上）。这样一个按着神的经纶由神所构成的人，绝不会受任何难处和问题所困惑，以致咒诅自己的生日，宁愿死不愿活。

　　神在祂经纶里的心意，乃是要把祂自己分赐到我们里面，作我们的生命和性情，使我们在生命和性情上能成为与祂一样，以彰显祂。……神的剥夺和神的销毁是要拆毁我们。我们是堕落、天然的人；身为这样的人，我们需要被拆毁。……然后祂才有一个根据，有一条路来重新建造我们。

　　神在祂经纶里的心意，不是要使堕落的人成为健全，乃是要把我们拆毁，然后用祂自己重建我们，以祂自己作我们的生命和性情，好叫我们这人完完全全与祂成为一。

　　神在约伯身上施行剥夺和销毁，好将他拆毁，使神能有一个根据和一条路，用神自己重建约伯，使他成为神人（约伯记生命读经，一二、二○、一三、三五、四二页）。

　　参读：约伯记生命读经，第五、二十三篇；过照着神启示之高峰的生活，第五篇。

　　Another word used in relation to Job the man is integrity. In Job 2:3 Jehovah tells Satan that Job “still holds fast his integrity.” In verse 9 Job’s wife asks him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity?” In 27:5 Job says to his friends, “Until I die, I will not put away my integrity from me.” Finally, in 31:6 Job declares, “Let God know my integrity.”… Integrity is the totality of being perfect and being upright; it is the totality of perfection plus uprightness. With respect to Job, integrity is the total expression of what he is. In character he is perfect and upright, and in his ethics he has a high standard of integrity.

　　It was not easy for God to gain a person like Job who feared God and turned away from evil. Yet what Job had attained was altogether vanity. It did not fulfill God’s purpose, and it did not satisfy God’s desire. Thus, God was lovingly concerned for Job. Ethically speaking, Job was very good. According to human eyes, there was no problem with Job. God even boasted to Satan regarding how good Job was (v. 8; 2:3). Only God knew that Job had a need, that he was short of God.

　　Eventually, God’s intention was to make Job a man of God (1 Tim. 6:11; 2 Tim. 3:17), filled with Christ, the embodiment of God, to be the fullness of God for the expression of God in Christ, not a man of the high standard of ethics in Job’s natural perfection, natural uprightness, and natural integrity, which Job attempted to maintain and hold (Job 2:3, 9a). Such a person, constituted with God according to His economy, would never be entangled by any troubles and problems so that he would curse his birth and prefer to die rather than to live.

　　In His economy God’s intention is to dispense Himself into us to be our life and our nature that we may be the same as He is in life and nature in order to express Him….God’s stripping and God’s consuming are to tear us down. We are fallen and natural men. As such men, we need to be torn down…. Then God can have a base, a way, to build us up again.

　　In His economy God’s intention is not to make fallen man whole. Rather, God’s intention is to tear us down and rebuild us with Himself as our life and our nature that we may be persons who are absolutely one with Him.

　　God’s stripping and consuming were exercised over Job to tear Job down that God might have a base and a way to rebuild him with God Himself that he might become a God-man. (Life-study of Job, pp. 9-10, 17, 10-11, 29, 34-35)

　　Further Reading: Life-study of Job, msgs. 5, 23; CWWL, 1994-1997, vol. 1, “Living a Life according to the High Peak of God’s Revelation,” ch. 5