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Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

PD · Francis Patrick Kenrick, Baltimore, 1849–1860 (Gospels 1849; Acts, Epistles & Apocalypse 1851; Psalms, Wisdom books & Canticle 1857; Job & the Prophets 1859; Pentateuch 1860)
Chapter 3

Job 3

It kept not my eyes from seeing evils.

H. P. " From the womb." He desired that he had perished at his birth. u H. expresses the premature reception of the new>born infant on the lap — probably of the mother.

The question asked above roust be understood again here : Why is the light of life given to a man, whose future career, full of calamities, is wholly hidden from his knowledge, he being in utter darkness with regard to the course of events f

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