Scripture Treasures: Job 3: 1-11

by Queenie 1

After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day.
And Job spake, and said,
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived,
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day testify it.
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Let the stars of the twilight there of be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day;
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Why did I not from the womb; why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?




Even Job went through very difficult and trying circumstances in his life. Job also felt like we do and he questioned "Why was I even born?" He went through the feelings of great despair and discouragement that we all feel when times of trouble and discouragement hit our lives.

We all have times of sorrow, pain that we have to deal with. None of us our exempt from these experiences in life as we all go through these life experiences which teach us great lessons. To learn from these lessons of life we sometimes go through such heart wrenching pain and sorrow and we question our existence here on this earth. Job also passed through this before us. We are not alone. Job's example can teach us a lot!

I think that what we can learn from these scriptures is that we all pass through the trials of life as soon as we are born we will have to go through some of life's teachings. We will all feel pain and sorrow and question why we are here or why we were even born at times in our lives!

As we read the scriptures and about Job and his life we can also learn that despite the trials that he endured in this life and after all the suffering that he suffered he was greatly blessed by God! It's as if God wanted to see if he would be faithful to him and when Job endured it well and went on in great faith in God later he was greatly blessed with more than he had when he started!

I think the same is true for all of us that if we pass through all the trials of our lives that we have to live through and we stay true to God through all these circumstances that after the trials are over we will be greatly blessed by God!