Job and Suicide

[Clovis]

Suicide would seem like a natural option for Job, but he never once mentions the option. Could this be simply because he was unable to kill himself? If so, it reminds me of a passage in Revelation when it mentions people wishing to die, but unable to.

Job could atriculate even when he was enveloped in severe pains probably both mental and physical. This seems strange. Does anyone think that the pain Job experienced in the hands of Satan has anything to do with the end-times tribulations when Satan is thrown to earth?

 

[davidv]

Suicide would seem like a natural option for Job, but he never once mentions the option. Could this be simply because he was unable to kill himself? If so, it reminds me of a passage in Revelation when it mentions people wishing to die, but unable to.

Job could atriculate even when he was enveloped in severe pains probably both mental and physical. This seems strange. Does anyone think that the pain Job experienced in the hands of Satan has anything to do with the end-times tribulations when Satan is thrown to earth?

Why does it seem natural to you?

What would have prevented him from doing so?

For one who trusts God, suicide cannot ever be a natural nor rational option.

 

[Clovis]

Why does it seem natural to you?

What would have prevented him from doing so?

For one who trusts God, suicide cannot ever be a natural nor rational option.

Job admitts often that he doesn’t understand why this is happening and that he is innocent; It has more to do with the fear of the unknown and powerful God, than Job having trusted God!

 

[davidv]

Job admitts often that he doesn’t understand why this is happening and that he is innocent; It has more to do with the fear of the unknown and powerful God, than Job having trusted God!

From Job1:22

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.

This does not seem like this comes from one with this attitude of fear. Seems like great trust in one know well to me.

 

[Clovis]

You didn’t answer, was it from fear or trust?

 

[The_Truthinator]

Interesting observation, becomes Job continually repeats that he longs for death–but I think he also wants answers, enough to motivate him to live. He’s discouraged, distraught, mocked, and no doubt depressed–but he still trusts that God’s reasoning is greater than what his friends would have him to think.

On the other hand, Tobit in the book of the same name prays for death, and Sarah contemplates hanging herself but then prays for death, also. I’m sure suicide was frowned upon very much and Semitic culture probably influenced the formers’ thinking–and Job no doubt had the cultural ideas of his day to deal with, too.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Job admitts often that he doesn’t understand why this is happening and that he is innocent; It has more to do with the fear of the unknown and powerful God, than Job having trusted God!

It is interesting to note that Job never does find out why it all is happening. He is content in being assured that God is in control.

 

[Zooey]

Job’s wife suggests suicide to him…At least, that is how I understand her, when she tells Job to “Curse God & die!”…for which he rebukes her.