Job 3:1-10

Summary: Having suffered material loss, the loss of his children, and now severe personal physical pain, and after mourning silently for a week, Job speaks up, cursing the days he was conceived and born for letting him come into the world and experience this pain.

Response: So first off, I think it's kind of neat how he goes about this. Job wants God to undo making the day, so he unchecks each box of creation. Let there be light? Make it dark. Moon and stars? Take 'em out, make this day literally not count. Separate land from sea (which may have had a leviathan fight in it at one point)? Bring that big fishy back into play for a night. Also, the writers really didn't like having the word "curse" written down, so they wrote "blessing" and figured the reader would understand the sarcasm. The sarcasm filter has been needed since the beginning of literature!

But yeah, other than it being Ash Wednesday, kind of a downer. I guess what I can say is that it's okay and even natural to have these feelings, at least in the sense that you don't have to ignore them or bottle them up. Job gets them out in the open to deal with them, which is more than we can say about a lot of our feelings. And God is big enough to accept these "blessings" all the same.