Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble.

     This passage from Job 14 one is often quoted from a positive perspective; as if Job was speaking the truth. And he is, but from a very bad perspective! Most folks use this verse to speak of his life as full of trouble that God can fix. But that is not how Job is using it. Job is using it in a fatalistic sense, complaining that life is full of troubles that no one, not even God does anything about. He is complaining that life is all too short, and that God has allowed even those few days to be hard and unpleasant.
     Verse two is admittedly eloquent: "He comes forth like a flower and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue.", In a complaining sort of fashion. But then, in verse three he allows his emotion to override him again and he calls his God to account: "And do You open Your eyes on such a one, And bring me to judgment with Yourself?". It is unclear as to whether he is speaking to his three friends, or to his God, (I think it is to God) but that is surely a bold statement, one born out of the intense and incredible personal pain.
     We must remember the beginning of the book of Job. He has lost all that he had, his children, his possessions, his health, his friends (at least their support), and the loving counsel and encouragement of his wife. All of that might actually be considered good cause for this, the scream that we see in these chapters. But we need to remember two things.
     First, we need to remember that God does not consider it a good call us for such a response on Jobs' part. God himself calls Job to account for this in the later chapters and takes Jobs' excuses apart and tell Him that these responses ought not have happened. He was a godly man, and ought have knew his God better and trusted Him and responded differently.
     Second, God forgave him, received him "back" in spite of this demonstration of unbelief, and restored to him more than that which he had lost. The demonstration of grace and mercy in Job's life is both astounding and, when we think about it, unsurprising.
     This is the God that we serve. Not a God who does terrible things and allows life to be hard. But a God Who, when life is hard, takes that hardness and redeems it and restores to us 10 fold what we lost, makes life good again.
     This is our struggle, to remember that the hardness of is not because of a capricious God Who allows hardness at His whim. But rather to remember that we serve a God whose delight is to take the lives of his people, ruined because of the acts of the enemy of our souls and our own association with sin, and use them to shown His own grace and power.
     Remember, in all of this, Job never sinned. He never charged God with evil or said God did wrongly. He surely struggled with his own resentment and anger...but he never went over that line...