Job accuses God of planning his destruction from the beginning and wishes he'd never been born. His description of Sheol as a land of utter darkness reminds us how different our hope is—Jesus has transformed death from a place of no return into a passage to resurrection.

Job loathes his life and questions God's justice, yet he remembers God as his Creator. Through striking poetry about being knit together in the womb, Job appeals to the hands that made him—even as those same hands seem to be destroying him.

In Job 9:21-35, we encounter one of the darkest moments in Job's journey. Though he knows he's blameless, Job feels helpless before God's overwhelming power. In his despair, he makes shocking accusations and cries out for something he doesn't yet have—a mediator who can bridge the gap between God and humanity. This raw, honest passage shows us both the depth of human suffering and points us toward the answer Job was longing for: Jesus Christ, our mediator.