Q. Who said this? "If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile.'"
A. Job

See Job 9: 27

Job was a righteous man who suffered greatly, and we would not blame him if he did not feel much like smiling during his trials and troubles. But he trusted God, made it through, and was blessed beyond what he could ever have imagined. He regained his health, wealth, and family, and lived a very long life. - Bible Verses Email

It’s really amazing how simple-minded people are. Let me enlighten you a bit. Job was no more righteous than you or I. He was nothing particular, except maybe low in the IQ department. Let’s examine some of the important parts of this badly written chapter:

. 8 Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil."

The Devil shows up from a few thousand years of roaming the earth and the FIRST thing god says is, “Hey look at Job!” I thought good old satan was suppose to be smart, he’s just been blindsided by a classic grift. So the devil starts in with, “well if you didn’t give him so much he wouldn’t love you so much” Which of course is utter and complete lunacy. That’s not what a single solitary sense of faith is about. It is not about what god gives a person; it’s never been about that. So either the writer of this book was a materialistic imbecile, or, more probably, he was intentionally pointing this story at an individual or group of foreigners or outsiders to show that faith alone was more valuable than wealth. One of the things most people forget is that writing has hardly ever been for the sake of transferring information. That is just an idea, bound to an arcane and dead way of thinking. The truth is that most writing is used as a tool to instigate idealism. It’s used as a tool to warp perception. To change opinion. It may convey a neat story but what is the story really saying. Even the old nursery rhymes we grew up with are hidden tales of dark ideology. It would be completely childish to assume that the bible would be any different. Especially since biblical ideology had to remain secretive and exclusive in order to maintain its superiority over others.

Anyway, god gives satan all the room he wants to destroy poor Job’s life. The devil does just that at god’s beckoning. Something like this:
God, “You call those boils, Satan?”
“Oh, that’s not good enough?”
“I just don’t want you saying if only I had made the boils watermelon size, Job would have given in! I don’t need you what if’ing me to death…when I win.”
“Fine, I’m making the boils bigger!”
“Good, good.”

The bet is simple, Job has to “Curse” god “to his face”. You see that’s the catch. That’s the ‘secret’ that is never broken in the adolescent mind of the church. In truth, if you read the story, Job does in fact curse god, more than once. He does it in the only way he knows how, without risking destruction form god:

Job Chapter 3:
3 "May the day of my birth perish,
and the night it was said, 'A boy is born!'
4 That day-may it turn to darkness;
may God above not care about it;
may no light shine upon it.
5 May darkness and deep shadow [1] claim it once more;
may a cloud settle over it;
may blackness overwhelm its light

He starts by this tactic: cursing himself and his own birth. In modern psychology we’d call that transference, or redirection. He’s not able, maybe through fear or unacceptance, to blame those responsible for his condition. Instead he attacks himself. Now the problem with this sort of mis-direction is that god created him. God created everything, including the devil and the devils boils and sickness. So by saying he curses himself for ever being born, he is saying that god made a mistake in having him even exist. Would it make it easier if Job had said, “Damn God for ever giving me the spark of life!” Again, he doesn’t put it this way because, well it’s a story about faith, but assuming that it was true, he doesn’t want to admit to whom is really at fault.

Chapter three is a long poem where Job cries about his existence…if that’s not cursing your creator I don’t know what is. But there is more.

Job 10
1 "I loathe my very life;
therefore I will give free rein to my complaint
and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God: Do not condemn me,
but tell me what charges you have against me.
3 Does it please you to oppress me,
to spurn the work of your hands,
while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

Here he begins to shift blame, he knows that something is a miss with the whole system, if he, a good honest man, can fall victim to this ‘evil’. He even has a comment for god, “Do not condemn me, but tell me what charges you have against me.” Like he has a right to ask that of god, the creator, the maker of the all the universe. No, if he was truly righteous, he would accept his fate and love it. This chapter continues in the same vane, that “you made this, why would you do that” sort of thinking. That is exactly what the devil said he would do, only it’s not semantically the same.

Job sits there with his friends, cursing his own life, blaming them at times, and on it goes:

Job 30
20 "I cry out to you, O God, but you do not answer;
I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly;
with the might of your hand you attack me.
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;
you toss me about in the storm.
23 I know you will bring me down to death,
to the place appointed for all the living.

Until finally, in chapter 38 a conclusion is proposed.

The Lord Speaks

1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm. He said:
2 "Who is this that darkens my counsel
with words without knowledge?
3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.

4 "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone-
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels [1] shouted for joy?
8 "Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
9 when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
10 when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
11 when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves halt'?

God speaks, and what does he say? Does he say, “Job you’ve done well. Proving that god is great and you are a loyal follower”. No. Does he say, “Job I appreciate your faith and concern”. No.
Instead he says, “What the hell? I made all this. I created everything. I did it. Not you. Not any empty headed little cretin like yourself. Who the hell are you to criticize me when you know nothing of who I am!”

In other words, god admits that the devil was right. That if god takes away the beauty of life, we will ‘curse’ god, not openly by saying, “I curse you god!” but by saying, “Why this and why that?” We’ll challenge him into confrontation. That is exactly what the devil was saying.

Job was no better than anyone with a firing neuron.

What is worse is that god looks like a blithering idiot. He attempts to trick the devil with this slight of hand about how great good old Job is, but in the end he has to appear before Job and defend his position as the supreme being.

This story has always bothered me. It is completely misunderstood and misread. The truth of the story is not about blind faith, but in teaching people to seek answers and truth no matter what the outcome. It is insulting that the church thinks the opposite.
-Dr Hogwash