Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 3:12
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Job3:12
12. [Why did the Knees prevent me? ] or [why the Breasts that I should suck? ]
Why did the Midwife or Nurse receive me and lay me upon her Knees, and did not suffer me to fall upon the bare ground, and there to lie in a neglected and forlorn condition, till merciful Death had taken me out of this miserable World into which the cruel kindness of my Mother and Midwife hath betrayed me?
Why did the Breasts prevent me (which may be fitly understood out of the former Member) to wit, from perishing through hunger, or supply me that I should have what to suck? Seeing my Mother had not a miscarrying Womb, but did unhappily bring me forth, why had she not dry Breasts? Or why were there any Breasts for me which I might suck? Thus Iob most unthankfully and unworthily despiseth and traduceth these wonderful and singular Mercies of God towards poor helpless Infants because of the present Inconveniences, which he had by means of them.
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