Job's Complaint (Job #4) - Bible Baptist Church

Text: Job 3

Job curses his birth (vss 1-10)

Job’s sorrow makes him wish he was never born
Job 3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Birth into this world introduces man to sorrow and Job knew this better than anyone.
- Job 5:7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Matthew 6:34 …Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Job doesn’t curse God for the trouble he’s in like most people do.
Job curses the day he was born, but Job’s stand is against the devil’s attempt to squeeze a curse against God out of Job. But Job doesn’t do it.
Ephesians 6:10-13 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Job stands in the Lord and doesn’t bring an accusation against God. Notice that the evil day is not avoided, it’s withstood.
God doesn’t chastise Job for his grief.

Vss 13-16 is clear that babies who die are protected by God. It is an infant in the womb, not a fetus.
Death is rest to those God has imputed righteousness to.
Luke 16
1 Thessalonians …those that sleep in Jesus…
Hebrews 3:18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
How terrible is it if a soul would go from the troubles of this temporary life to the fiery neverending trouble.

…yet trouble came (vs 26) – Job was diligent to take care of his family and his possessions, but he could not avoid trouble.
Rest (vss 13, 17, 18, 26)
- Let me be a little contemplative here. Your incessant and vain search for rest in this body, in this present evil world, is your soul looking for something this present evil world doesn’t provide.
- Blinded from the rest in Jesus Christ so we medicate, and drink, and play, and try to forget the trouble that the god of this world has brought on God’s creation.