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In chapter 3 we see Job's perplexity. We must not misunderstand this chapter. Job did not curse [[God]], as [[Satan]] predicted, or as Job's wife suggested.
It is good to know that [[Satan]] cannot predict the future. He only knows it as [[God]] has written it in His Word. Job did curse his birthday; he felt it would have been better had he died at birth than live and endure such grief. In verses 20-24 Job asked why miserable people such as himself had to live at all!
Chapters 4 and 5 record Eliphaz's first speech. He rebuked Job and insisted that the righteous are not cut off.
I believe a key verse in these chapters is verse 17 of chapter 5. "Behold, happy is the man whom [[God]] correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty." [[God]] is just, and must correct His children. When we are chastised it is for our own good. Hebrews 12:6,7 says, "For whom the [[Lord]] loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, [[God]] dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?" [[God]] loves us, and chastens us because He loves us. Parents correct their children when they have been disobedient. Sometimes a rod is necessary. But we do not correct our children because we are brutal or unloving, but because we do [[love]] them and want to teach them the way they should go. So it is with [[God]]. When His children falter, and fail to repent of their [[sin]], He must chastise them in order to bring them back to Himself. Job says, "Happy is the man whom [[God]] correcteth."