Job has suffered. So far he's given the "right" responses; the acceptable religious answers about accepting bad from God as well as good. Now, after seven days of silent mourning with his friends, Job truly lets out the pain of his heart. This raw, honest, angry grief opens up the rest of the book for us. No matter how we feel or how we express it, God loves us and can take our most unfiltered feelings.
God bless,
Sam
Job
3:1-10
After
this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2Job
said: 3“Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that
said, ‘A man-child is conceived.’ 4Let that day be darkness! May God
above not seek it, or light shine on it. 5Let gloom and deep
darkness claim it. Let clouds settle upon it; let the blackness of the day
terrify it.
6That night—let
thick darkness seize it! let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it
not come into the number of the months. 7Yes, let that night be
barren; let no joyful cry be heard in it. 8Let those curse it who
curse the Sea, those who are skilled to rouse up Leviathan. 9Let the
stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none; may it not see
the eyelids of the morning— 10because it did not shut the doors of
my mother’s womb, and hide trouble from my eyes.
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