John Trapp on Job 3:10

Verſe 10. Becauſe it ſhut not up the doors of my mothers womb] Leſt his curſe ſhould ſeem cauſeleſſe, and he mad without reaſon, he telleth you here, why he thus powred out his paſſion; and complaineth ſo heavily againſt the day of his birth, and night of his conception, which yet were harmleſſe, and had not deſerved to be thus charged, curſed. Becauſe it ſhut not up, &c. But how could the night do that? Is it not of God alone to ſhut or open the womb, Gen 20.18. and 29.31.? And was it not he that took David thence? Pſal. 18.23. This Job could tell well enough at another time, but now he is quite out of all reaſon; beating himſelf with his paſſions, as the Lion doth with his own tail: yea, like ſome ſullen bird in a cage, he could almoſt find in his heart to beat himſelf to death. We uſe to ſay, — Res eſt ingenioſa dolor, Grief is an ingenious thing; yet it maketh a man fooliſh (the exceſſe of it) as it did Job here: yea it maketh a wiſe man mad as Solomon ſaith of Oppreſſion, Eccleſ. 7.7. and we ſee it exemplified in Job, eſpecially if the words be thus read, as they may, Becauſe he (that is, God) ſhut not up the doors &c.

Nor [illegible: 1 letter]id ſorrow from mine eyes.] In Scripture, to ſee good or evill, is to feel it, Pſal. 34.12. Jer. 17.6. Iſa. 65.16. Job. 33.17. He meaneth, that he had miſt thoſe evils which now he met with ſince his coming into the world, if thoſe doors, being ſhut, had ſhut him out of the world. Man is no ſooner born, then born to trouble, Job 5.7. yea, man that is born (or conceived) of a woman is of few dayes, and full of trouble: Job 14.1. Miſerable he is even ſo ſoon as he is warm in the womb, as David phraſeth it, Pſal. 51.5. If he live to ſee the light, he comes crying into the world, and an untimely birth may be better then he, Eccleſ. 5.3. The Hebrews call him Enoſh, that is, ſorryman; Pſal. 3.21. or dolefull, miſerable, and deſperately diſeaſed man, whoſe living is but to lye a dying. The Greeks, when they would ſet forth one extremely wretched, they call him [non-Latin text not transcribed] thrice-a-men, that is, thrice miſerable. And, What is man, faith Seneca? He anſwereth, Marbidum, pu[illegible: 1 letter]re, caſſum, à fletu vitam auſpicatum: Ad Mar. cap. 11. a diſeaſed, rotten, empty thing, beginning his life with tears; as if he wept to think upon what a ſhore of trouble he is landed, or rather, into what a ſea of ſorrowes he is lanching, not unlike the St[illegible: 1 letter]eights of Magellan, a ſea of that nature, ſay Geographers, that which way ſoever a man bend his courſe, he ſhall be ſure to have the wind againſt him.