Job, Chapters 2-11

When Job finally begins to curse as he agonizes, I immediately thought of Enkidu and his curses as he died. Why does this happen? It is obviously recorded in both texts because it is a human behavior present in both cultures. But they why wasn't directed at this, but at why humans curse at the hour of their deaths. Why they feel the need to shift blame on fate, or family, or whatever is present. I believe it lies in the root fear humans have, the fear of death. When it feels close, the fact they feel life is slipping, makes them lash out.

Job's cursing of the day he was born makes me think of the movie "It's a wonderful life", in which a man desires he had never been born. His angel acquiesces and he sees the effect this has on the life he knew, and as he sees, ultimately loved, no matter how horrible it seemed at certain times. This story line has been followed in many different forms of media, as people in a fit of deppression (and I have observed a few instances in real life) sometimes wish never to have existed, so they knew not pain, which we see is another ancient form of human behavior, as it was recorded in the times of Job.