Job 3:9-10

9 Let the stars [kowkab] of the twilight [nesheph] thereof be dark [chashak]; let it look [qavah] for light ['owr], but have none; neither let it see [ra'ah] the dawning [`aph`aph] of the day [shachar]:

10 Because it shut not up [cagar] the doors [deleth] of my mother's womb [beten], nor hid [cathar] sorrow [`amal] from mine eyes [`ayin]. KJV-Interlinear

9 'Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, Neither let it see the breaking dawn; 10 Because it did not shut the opening of my mother's womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes. NASB

'Woe is me! Woe is me!' Job is hurting really bad. He is wishing for this and for that, and in every wish, which is impossible, he expresses the depth of his misery.

His day of birth is cursed. If that day had never occurred, then he would never have been born? But there it is every year, serving as a constant reminder, 'You have been born. You have been born.'

But then maybe the night of his conception could have been prevented. If the night had never occurred, then there would never have been intimacy between his mother and father. But then we cannot turn back the clock and prevent a night. But then maybe if the parents had never had intimacy, then there would never have been the finality of that event. No joy, no conception.

Then there is the possibility of getting the mystics, the enchanters, those who make it a habit of cursing this or that. Those who say they can call on the supernatural, the monsters from the beyond, which have the power to change time and places.

But of course, all of these are the expressions of false powers, wishes expressed from the depths of despair.

And now, Job wishes for that night, the night of his conception, to have never ended. No morning stars to open up the eyelids of the new day. If perhaps these had never come out, if that night had never ended, then time would have stood still and his misery would never have come since the pregnancy would have never gone forth, and birth would have never occurred.

The new days would have been disappointed, since the night of his conception would have never ended. Time and history would have been cheated. And all for his sake, and for his sake alone.

Because, is it not the night, the traditional time of intimacy, that contributed to the opening of his mother womb, that contributed to the conception, that led to his birth, and ultimately to his misery?

Therefore, eradicate, stamp out, eliminate, remove, curse, wipe out, destroy that initial night, and then Job would never have come into existence, and Job would never have suffered misery.

At some point in time, everyone will find themselves bent over maybe on their knees, wishing for one thing or another. Maybe the cause will be social, or economic, or medical, or personal, or whatever, but when you hurt, when life has pushed you into a corner, or when you have run yourself into a corner which you cannot get out of, then the irrational wishes spring up like little weeds, in the soul. One after the another, if this, if that.

And that is the only type of life that one can expect in the jungle environment of this world. Satan is its ruler. Satan starts the trouble, and then leaves the scene. Man just naturally continues the misery, which he didn't even begin.

And in all of this, did anything come true? Did any of Job's wishes come to pass? No. They have no power.

Mans wishes, mans words, mans will, has no power. We may be able to wind our watches backwards, but we cannot alter the course of planet earth's revolution around the sun.

Pretending does not create reality, or truth.

Job cannot wish for any changes, which will prevent, or would have prevented, his misery. The world is powerless, and therefore undependable. It cannot perform to any level of our expectations, even unreasonable ones.

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