Job 10:9 says, Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?  Having said that God created him, Job asks God to remember that.  Job also asks if God is going to return him to dust, to utterly destroy him.  We do not have to ask if God remembers if He created us, nor should we be overly concerned about when this life will end. God will be with us forever if we put our faith in Christ, or as in Job's case, if he just continued to put his faith in God.  Verse ten adds, Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?  Job was again asking why God, Who had created him, was now punishing him.  Job knew that he could think of nothing that he had done to deserve the punishment that he felt God was placing on Him.  Job was really stating that he believed that even the bad things in life came from God, but we know this is not true.   Verse eleven continues, Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.  Job was still reminding God that He was the Creator of life.  Verse twelve states, Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.  Job knew what it was like to be in the favor of God, but he still evidently felt that when he was suffering that he was out of God's favor.  He knew that God still preserved his spirit, but he no longer felt the presence of God in his life. If we do not feel God's presence in our lives today, we can be certain that He has not left us, but that we have left Him.  Verse thirteen adds, And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.  I believe that Job was saying that God knew what kind of person he had been.  We do not need to fear that God will ever forget His people.  Even in the worst of suffering, God is with us through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.   Verse fourteen continues, If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.  Sin does indeed leave its mark on us, but through Christ we are acquitted of that sin and all the marks of sin are washed away.  Verse fifteen says, If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;  Job really didn't think he had done anything to deserve what he felt was punishment from God.  He said if he was wicked, he deserved to be punished, but even if he were righteous, he would not lift his head in defiance is what I believe he was saying.  He just wanted to understand why this was happening to him. Even if we feel unjustly treated today, we cannot stand in defiance and blame God.  Verse sixteen adds, For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.  Job felt that there was no place to escape the suffering he was enduring.  He felt God was hunting him like a lion and was showing Job how marvelously powerful God was.  God does not have to seek us, because He always knows exactly where we are, physically and spiritually, and the universe proclaims how powerful He is.  Verse seventeen continues, Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.  Job still believed that God was the direct cause of all his troubles.  We cannot attribute everything that happens in life to the direct hand of God.  The evil in the world is the result of the free will of people in opposition to God's will.  Verse eighteen states, Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!  I believe this is similar to a child today saying that they never asked to be born when things are not going the way they want them to in life.  Verse nineteen adds, I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.  Job continues with this thought about being better off if he had never been born.  We, as followers of Christ, must acknowledge that God is the giver of life, and that we should never question the wisdom of our birth.  Verse twenty continues, Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,  I believe that Job was saying that since his life seemed to be basically over, he just wanted it to end.  Verse twenty-one says, Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; Job recognized that when life was over that there was no returning.  Verse twenty-two adds, A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.  As followers of Christ, we know that when we die, we do not go away into a place of darkness, but into the presence of the light of Christ Himself.