Job 3:11

11 Que ne suis-je mort dès le sein de ma mère? Au sortir de ses flancs, que n'ai-je expiré?

Job 3:11 Meaning and Commentary

Job 3:11

Why died I not from the womb?
&c.] That is, as soon as he came out of it; or rather, as soon as he was in it, or from the time that he was in it; or however, while he was in it, that so he might not have come alive out of it; which sense seems best to agree both with what goes before and follows after; for since his conception in the womb was not hindered, he wishes he had died in it; and so some versions render it to this sense ^F14:

[why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
since he died not in the womb, which was desirable to him, he wishes that the moment he came out of it he had expired, and is displeased because it was not so, see ( Jeremiah 20:17 ) ( Hosea 9:11 ) ; thus what is the special favour of Providence, to be taken out of the womb alive, and preserved, he wishes not to have enjoyed, see ( Psalms 22:9 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 (Mxrm) (en koilia) , Sept. "in vulva", V. L. "aut, in utero", Beza, Mercerus, Cocceius, Junius, Michaelis; so R. Abraham Peritzol, and Simeon Bar Tzemach.

Job 3:11 In-Context

9 Que les étoiles de son crépuscule soient obscurcies, qu'elle attende la lumière et qu'il n'y en ait point, et qu'elle ne voie pas les paupières de l'aurore!

10 Parce qu'elle n'a pas fermé le sein qui me porta, et n'a point caché la douleur à mes yeux!

11 Que ne suis-je mort dès le sein de ma mère? Au sortir de ses flancs, que n'ai-je expiré?

12 Pourquoi des genoux se sont-ils présentés à moi, et pourquoi des mamelles pour être sucées?

13 Car, maintenant, je serais couché et tranquille, je dormirais, je serais en repos,