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"`Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
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A Return to Despair
Commentators observe that Job is not raising a new complaint but returning to the deep anguish he first expressed in chapter 3. Despite his friends' arguments, his suffering is so profound that he circles back to wishing he had never been born, showing the depth of his unresolved pain and the failure of their counsel to bring him comfort.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Why then have you brought me forth? See the notes at Job 3:11.
19th Century
Anglican
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth? —Here Job reverts to the strain of his original curse (Job 3:11 and following).
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore then have you brought me forth out of the womb ? &c.] Into this world; this act is rightly ascribed by Job…
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Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigor. His gloom, unb…
13th Century
Catholic
Job had finished his investigation with the statement that he has suffered many tribulations, whether he is just or unjust. He now wants to ask if …
