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Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures
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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