Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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Gill's Exposition
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb,.... Or "of my belly" (m), or "womb"; which Aben Ezra interprets of the navel, by which the infant receives its food and nourishment before it is…
Barnes' Notes
Because it shut not up ... - That is, because the accursed day and night did not do it. Aben Ezra supposes that God is meant here, and that the complaint of Job is that he did not close his mother’s…
Long was Job's heart hot within him; and, while he was musing, the fire burned, and the more for being stifled and suppressed. At length he spoke with his tongue, but not such a good word as David…
Cambridge Bible
the doors of my mother's womb to hinder conception or fruitfulness, Gen 20:18; 1Sa 1:5. The crime of the night is deferred to the last, and the curse closes with the mention of it.
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