Job 3

Here Job and his friends that came to comfort him have been sitting for seven days and seven nights without saying a word.  Then here in chapter three Job speaks.
20“Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to the bitter in soul,
21who long for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22who rejoice exceedinglyand are glad when they find the grave? Job 3:20-22.
Job questions his very birth. He is in torment with sores all over his body and and he longs for the grave, just to be over his misery. Job does not understand what is happening to him. He finds no joy in his affliction. He does not know that God has allowed this upon him to show Satan and the world, even us to day. Job did not have the book of Job to read in his day. Perhaps he was familiar with the law of Moses, he eschewed evil.   We do see people today, and I remember my mother, so longing to go to leave this earth. The last year of her life was bed ridden, and she just wanted to go. My Grandfather, Christ Hauff, in his eighties, just wanted to go. They could have put in a pace maker and extended his life, but he said: I have had a good life, just let me go. He didn't want any more days, and God indeed did take him. And so it seems in the end of our days, as health fails us, perhaps we too long to go. Life has been good but we don't want to suffer. That is the way with Job here in the third chapter.  He don't understand but he does not charge God foolishly. If we have been forgiven of our sins, we have our ticket bought to our eternity in heaven. One man says it is like having a bus ticket but your hoping the bus doesn't come, at least not yet. O that we could trust God in everything as Job did. God bless, LVZ.