Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 3:10
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Job3:10
10. Because [it ] [shut not up the doors ] of my [Mothers ] Womb, [nor hid sorrow from mine Eyes. ]
To wit, the night or the day: to which those things are ascribed which were done by others in them, as is frequent in Poetical Writings, such as this is. Or, he, i. e. God: whom in modesty and Reverence he forbears to name. Yet he doth not curse God for his Birth, as the Devil presaged, but only wisheth that the day of his Birth might have manifest Characters of a Curse impressed upon it.
That it might either never have conceived me, or at least never have brought me forth.
Which word is here fitly supplied both out of Ch. 1. 21. and 31. 18. where it is expressed; and by comparing other places where it is necessarily to be understood, though the Womb only be mentioned, as Iob 10. 19. Psal. 58. 3. Isa. 48. 8. Ier. 1. 5.
Because it did not keep me from entring into this miserable Life, and seeing, i. e. feeling, or experiencing, (as that word is oft used) those bitter sorrows under which I now groan.
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