10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. …
For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! …
And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)Long was Job’s heart hot within him; and, while he was musing, the fire burned, and the more for being stifled and suppressed. At length he spoke with his tongue, but not such a good word as David spoke after a long pause: Lord, make me to know my end , Ps. 39:3 , 4 . Seven days the prophet Ezekiel sat down astonished with the captives, and then (probably on the sabbath day) the word of the Lord c…
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