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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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Albert Barnes
On Job 10:18
18th Century
Theologian
Why then have you brought me forth? See the notes at Job 3:11.
Charles Ellicott
On Job 10:18
19th Century
Bishop
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth? —Here Job reverts to the strain of his original curse (Job 3:11 and following).
John Gill
On Job 10:18
17th Century
Pastor
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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Matthew Henry
On Job 10:14–22
17th Century
Minister
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…