Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 3:3

3. [ Let the day perish wherein I was born, ] and the night in which [it was said, ] There is a Man-Child [conceived ]

Let the remembrance of that day be utterly lost. Yea, I heartily wish that it had never been. Such Wishes are apparently foolish and impatient, and yet have been somtimes forced from wise and good men in grievous Distresses, not as if they expected any effect of them, but only to shew their abhorrency of Life, and to express the intolerableness of their grief, and to give some vent to their passions.

With Joy and Triumph, as happy tidings. Compare Ier. 20. 15.

Or rather, brought forth, as this word is used, 1 Chron. 4. 17. For the time of conception is unknown commonly to Women themselves, and doth not use to be reported among men, as this day is supposed to be.

Marginal references: Ch. 10. 1[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪ 19 I[illegible: 1+ letters]. 20. 1[illegible: 1+ letters] ▪