Bible Discussion Thread

Can you explain Job 3-14

In detail

Just exactly what that verse is talking about?

Yes I agree, "This is a picture of the true state of a person outside of God's providence, mercy and grace. This life would be so hellish and agonizing every minute"

God allowed this to minister Jobs life and story to us.

Without the spirit of God in the world we all would be in that condition.

This reminds me of

2 Thessalonians 2:7. ( For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.)

Go's bless.

Hi Duane.

Here we see Job wishes he was never born.

Job 3:12-19. Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

Here's verse 14 which is in questioning. Let's take it with verse 13.

( For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;)

Job pictures death as annihilating, All sleep equally in the grave. Kings, counsellors and prisoners and servants. ect..

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

THERE THE PRISONERS REST TOGETHER; THEY HEAR NOT THE VOICE OF THE OPPRESSOR.

THE SMALL AND GREAT ARE THERE; and the servant is free from his master.

Job 3:19-22. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Job cursed the day he was born but he never cursed God.

Yes, Job was seeking relief from all of the hardship and heartaches that had come upon him so swiftly and terribly. He regrets being alive to experience these deep losses, griefs, and diseases. Can anyone blame him? What anguish he endured. What with the loss of children, health, friends, and his wife telling him to "drop dead" while cursing God. He must have felt so alone, forsaken, and that God's mercy ang grace were far removed from him. This is a picture of the true state of a person outside of God's providence, mercy and grace. This life would be so hellish and agonizing every minute.

But thankfully, God causes the sun to rise on the wicked and the just. His mercy and grace does cover the earth and should he withdraw it we would all be like Job in this place of God allowing him to taste life that is under the curse of sin. Without

God's benevolence, mercy and grace bestowed upon the wicked and the just, we all would receive in our lives and our bodies all the consequences of sin in this life as well as the next. But it is His kindness that leads us to repentance. His mercy that we seek and His grace that we taste and know that he is good.