Reflect on Night

• Wiesel states that he sympathized with Job. After reading The Book of Job, how would you describe the similarities/differences between Wiesel and Job and their relationships with God? 21) Compare the reactions of Job and Wiesel to their suffering and to the way their suffering affected their faith.

I think Job and Wiesel are similar. After fall into temptation, he just stands all hardships. Moreover, when Wiesel’s family killed by Germans, they cursed Heaven; because they thought God help us always. Now, change the scene and start imagining you are in the Nazi concentration camp. Looking skeletal, wearing old and torn grimy striped uniform, you have to labor all day only with some soup and bread. In their situation, they didn’t believe in God and have doubt about the existence of God.
On the contrary, Job and Wiesel are different. This is the first time that Job didn’t believe in God. However, finally he perceived a truth. Job believed in God and praised whatever happens. When people are in hardship, Job thinks have faith in God and have to be patient always. However, when Wiesel became fifteen years old, he and his family were sent to the Nazi concentration camp; there, he lost his mother and sister, burned in a crematorium, and saw lots deaths resulted from extreme violence and brutality. They ask themselves,” Where is God?” In this way, he confused and doesn’t believe in God.
The Job was still believed in God. When he suffers from Satan, he has patient. Therefore, the Job blessed with riches, offspring and long life. On the other hands, Wiesel gets angry with the suffering of the Jews. I think he was weak in faith.