Why did the knees prevent me? — That is, the lap of the nurse or of the mother, probably the latter. The sense is, that if he had not been d…

Prevent — that is, “Why was I nursed with care instead of being allowed to fall to the ground and be killed?”

Why did the knees prevent me ?
&c.] Not of the mother, as Jarchi, but of the midwife, who received him into her lap,…

Job complained of those present at his birth for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power an…

After cursing the day of his birth and the night of his conception to show that he detested his life from its beginning, Job now shows that he also…