Curse of Sitidos

Sitidos was the name of Job's first wife, taken from The Testament of Job, a rewrite of the book of Job, written in the first person from his viewpoint. It is a post-Biblical Judiac work, possibly written in the first century, rejected as being non-Apocryphal by the Vatican but preserved by the Copts.
In the book of Job version we have, verse 2:9 translated as, Curse God and die. This version says, Bless God and die.
March 16 was a storming day as we drove to Raiford for her first interview with Union Correctional. She learned through the interview she would have to work night shift, drive the 26 miles, work with the mentally deranged inmates. She was optimistic, saying, if all else fails, I will take it. The rain continued all the way home. The next day they called, and she declined, hoping to hear from another job offered, having the hope of remaining at home doing what she had been doing. The offer fell. They were not going to fill the position at the time, having other hiring needing attention first. The next day, Columbia Correctional called. Union Correctional referred her. They had a day job in the clinic. It sounded promising. Only nine miles down the road from home. 7 to 3:30, no nights or week-ends. And so she took the job.
After the finger printing and background checks complete, yesterday, she began her 'prison stint'. Six o'clock and we began to wonder. She could take no cell phone in so calls went un-heeded. Finally, near seven, she came rolling in. First day they had an inmate emergency with a diabetic comma. She could deal with it.
What she was going to have a most difficult time dealing with were first, the constant cursing, second, they will eat my lunch if I remain nice. As a nurse, she has been attentive to kindness,empathy, comfort. All these are considered bad traits, exploitable in the prison culture. I told her she may as well forgo the make up in the morning and take on more of a butch appearance.
I know there has to be a large number of Christians working in these institutions. It only points out how as Christians we have no influence over the culture of our day. If we were truly walking in the light, I do believe the curse God and die culture would not rule the day. I think of the movie Shawshank Redemption where the warden quoted scripture but inwardly was a raving, cursing, sadistic, murdering maniac hypocrite.
Allison told her the best place to do job searching is while working. I trust the home job will finally decide to hire her and she can tell this curse culture to kiss her (&#)@! ((. Nicely of course.