The Bible says of Job that he was blameless, upright, feared God and shunned evil.  He had seven sons and three daughters, much livestock and was the greatest man in the east.

In a series of terrible events Job lost all his goods, and all ten of his children in one day.  It wasn’t long until Job lost his health.  He was sitting in an ash heap scraping his boils with a broken piece of potsherd when his three friends came to him.

His friends accused him of having some hidden, unforgiven sins and that he needed to stop sinning and all his troubles would go away.

True, God can and does chasten us often.  However, not all sickness, sorrow and ailments can be traced back to something sinful we have done which resulted in the chastening hand of God being laid upon us.

One day Jesus and his disciples saw a man who was blind from his birth.  His disciples asked Jesus, “Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”  Jesus’ answered that his blindness was not the result of the sins of the man or his parents but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. (John 9:1-41)

Job’s so called friends and the Lord’s disciples had similar erroneous thinking.  Job’s faith held despite his losses and the young man to whom Jesus gave sight became a disciple and follower of Jesus.  Let God take your bad and turn it into good to His glory.