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I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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The Wish for Non-Existence
Commentators explain that Job's wish to be 'as though I had not been' is a desire for a life so short it would be forgotten. He imagines being carried directly from the womb to the grave, a state he considers happier because it would have allowed him to completely bypass the immense suffering he was now enduring.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I should have been carried from the womb to the grave - See the notes at Job 3:16.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I should have been as though I had not been For though it cannot be said absolutely of such a one, an abortive or un…
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…
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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 …
