July 30, 2012 – Job 3

To wish to have never been born is a drastic wish.  Job has it here.  As we see in “It’s a Wonderful Life”, we really have no idea what lives we have touch through our own actions.  Another story that shows this is “The Five People You Meet in Heaven”.  Both give the main character a taste of what impact they have on the lives around them that we never fully know or understand. 

It is important to note that Job never blames God, at least not here.  There are going to be a lot of back and forth and I remember the last time I read Job I got pretty confused.  Job ask that God go back and make it so that he was never born, but doesn’t come out and accuse God of anything. Job maintains that he is innocent and that he has no reason that this should have happened.  We will see that people doubt his innocence because bad things like this would not have happened were it not deserved.