He doesn’t curse God, but he curses the day he was born.
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In a torrent of grief and protest, he cries, wishing that he had never lived. A Torrent of Griefįinally Job can contain himself no longer. For days they sit with him in silence, seeing how greatly he suffers. In all this, he submits patiently to God, only to be mocked by his wife, who tells him to “curse God and die!”(Job 2:9) Friends arrive, and still he is patient. Disease strikes him, and he is covered with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. Raiders sweep his fields his livestock are captured or destroyed his servants are put to the sword a house collapses on his sons and daughters and kills them all. Job”s life falls to pieces calamity of every kind descends upon him. Job is blameless and upright, a man of such integrity that even God likes to show him off. The history of the incident is told in great detail in the Bible. He too was plagued with so-called comforters and defenders of God, but he demanded a hearing from God Himself, and God answered him. If only I could state my case before Him and hear His answer! Has God forgotten me? Does He hate me? Why does He seem to hide Himself? I am weary of my comforters, tired of His defenders. I’m not interested in a God who is “not responsible.” Some Comforters, Some Religion I may be baffled by Him, I may be frustrated by Him, but the God I want to hear from is the God who rules the world. If God is really God, then He could have stopped it if I’m suffering, then He could have stopped it but didn’t. God is just as helpless as you are, and He weeps to see your sorrow.” No. If He could have kept your trouble from happening, He would have, but He couldn’t. “Don’t question God’s ways He might hear you.” In my cry of anguish, don’t I want Him to hear me? “It’s probably for your own good.” If I’m to be tormented for my own good, don’t I get a say in the matter? “I’m sure there’s a good reason.” No doubt there is, but did I ask for a philosophical explanation? What I asked is “Where is God?” Some ComfortersĮven worse are the people who say, “You’re being unfair to God. Their intentions may be good, but they are hard to bear.
You’re sick, you’re dying, you’ve been deserted, you’ve lost a child, you’re innocent but accused of wrongdoing - and they try to shush you. If you hurt enough to ask such questions, you deserve an answer. Where is God? Does He know, or are my prayers heard only by the wall? Is He near, or somewhere distant, only watching? By night I can’t sleep, by day I can’t rest.
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