Job 24 - 36

When come to know the character of as he paints a picture of his life and works before his fall and suffering explaining -

"When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me" (Old Testament Job 29:5 - 11)

It was during this period of prosperity that Job tells his friends -

"I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out." (Old Testament Job 29:12 - 16)

Even -

"Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?" (Old Testament Job 30:25)

In doing this, Job had demonstrated the purest form of faith. James taught -

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (New Testament James 1:27)

Even with this great demonstration of faith, he still experienced the trials which he did. An final reason for his suffering can be explained with words spoken to the Prophet Joseph Smith as he suffered terribly for six months in the Liberty Jail -

"My son, peace be unto thy soul; thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment;
8 And then, if thou endure it well, God shall exalt thee on high; thou shalt triumph over all thy foes.
9 Thy friends do stand by thee, and they shall hail thee again with warm hearts and friendly hands.
10 Thou art not yet as Job; thy friends do not contend against thee, neither charge thee with transgression, as they did Job." (Doctrine and Covenants Section 121:7 - 10)

"...all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good.
8 The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he?" (Doctrine and Covenants Section 122:7 - 8)