Job 3:2

"Job said, 'Let the day perish on which. was to be born, and the night which said, 'A boy is conceived'""If the day on which he was born had been wiped from the calendar, he could have avoided being born. Job then backed up to the moment at night when he was conceived. Apparently, he considered conception the beginning of his existence. The night was personified as knowing and announcing the sex of the child conceived" (Zuck pp. 22-23). Job's suffering is that of the man who wants to die but cannot. Yet Job must realize that the answer to his questions is not found in dying, but in living.