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“Let the day perish wherein I was born” (Job 3:3).
“Woe unto that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he had not been born” (Matthew 26:24).
Job did not always do what was right. When he did start to speak, after he had lost his wealth, his children, and his health, he said that he wished he had never been born. He felt so miserable that he wished he had never come into the world. There is one man in the Bible about whom it was definitely said that it would have been good if he were not born, and that was Judas Iscariot, who betrayed the Lord Jesus.
If we know the Lord, and have accepted the Lord Jesus as our Savior, we will spend an eternity with Him in heaven. It is worth any amount of suffering to be able to have this at the end of our life down here. There is no doubt that Judas went into a lost eternity, and it would definitely have been better if he had not been born. But we will see Job in heaven; he did not need to wish he had never been born.
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