In Christ's Death, We Have Rest

"Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?"

"There [in death] the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest." (Job 3: 11,17)

Man has to die in order to live:

"Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?" (Romans 7: 1)

then

"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God." (Romans 7: 4)

At the time, Job just wanted to be free of his misery, yet Satan could toy with Job precisely because he was a son of  Adam who had not established a covenant of protection with the living God.

And since Adam, death had reigned in the world:

"Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come." (Romans 5: 14).

Yet the second Adam has come to die for us, and by His death we are free from the curse of the law and the flesh, and we can thus receive His Spirit in our lives.

In Christ, we are dead, that we may receive His life:

"For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

"When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3: 3-4)

Our death in Christ allows us to rest in Him (Hebrews 4: 1), that though we live on this earth, the life that we live, we live by the faith of the Son of  God in us (Galatians 2: 20)

What Job wanted, we have received, and much more through Christ.