18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. …
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-22)Here we have, I. Job’s passionate complaints. On this harsh and unpleasant string he harps much, in which, though he cannot be justified, he may be excused. He complained not for nothing, as the murmuring Israelites, but had cause to complain. If we think it looks ill in him, let it be a warning to us to keep our temper better. 1. He complains of the strictness of God’s judgment and the rigour of…
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