June 20, 2025 , Job 3:1-26
June 20, 2025 , Job 3:1-26
3 After
this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And
Job said:
3 “Let the
day perish on which I was born,
and the
night that said,
‘A man
is conceived.’
4 Let that day be darkness!
May God
above not seek it,
nor
light shine upon it.
5 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it.
Let
clouds dwell upon it;
let the
blackness of the day terrify it.
6 That 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.
7 Behold, let that night be barren;
let no
joyful cry enter it.
8 Let those curse it who curse the day,
who are
ready to rouse up Leviathan.
9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
let it
hope for light, but have none,
nor
see the eyelids of the morning,
10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's
womb,
nor hide
trouble from my eyes.
11 “Why did
I not die at birth,
come out
from the womb and expire?
12 Why did the knees receive me?
Or why
the breasts, that I should nurse?
13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would
have slept; then I would have been at rest,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth
who rebuilt
ruins for themselves,
15 or with princes who had gold,
who
filled their houses with silver.
16 Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child,
as
infants who never see the light?
17 There the wicked cease from troubling,
and
there the weary are at rest.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together;
they
hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
19 The small and the great are there,
and the
slave is free from his master.
20 “Why is
light given to him who is in misery,
and life
to the bitter in soul,
21 who long for death, but it comes not,
and dig
for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 who rejoice exceedingly
and are
glad when they find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
whom God
has hedged in?
24 For my sighing comes instead of my bread,
and
my groanings are poured out like water.
25 For the thing that I fear comes upon me,
and what
I dread befalls me.
26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have
no rest, but trouble comes.”
Here we see Job lament his
very birth. How hard this has been for him.
To express your grief and
despair to God is not a sin. Are you confident God understands the dark despair
that comes upon you in time of grief, loss and suffering?
God wants us to cry out to
him just as our earthly father would want us to seek him in times of grief,
loss and suffering.
Cry out to God when times
are hard and let him help you heal.
Debbie Walker
Comments
Post a Comment