One of the most realistic stories in the Bible is the story of Job and his troubles.

Job was a good and righteous man whom God blessed abundantly. God blessed him with seven sons and three daughters, a total of ten children, the number which signaled completeness. Likewise, God blessed Job with seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels, again seven plus three, giving us the number of perfection.

Furthermore, God blessed Job with five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys which also adds up to the perfect number of ten. In other words, the writer of Job wants to make it "perfectly clear" that Job was especially blessed by God. Indeed we are told that Job was the greatest of all the people of the east (1:3). He was so wealthy that each of his sons had an establishment of his o…