Holy Scripture

Job 3:10

A church father on this verse
“ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION. Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. What the womb of his mother is to each individual man, that the primary abode in Paradise became to the whole human race. For from it came forth the family of man as it were from the womb, and tending to th…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book IV

Source: Septuagint

Original

10Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb, For so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.

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In context

8But let him that curses that day curse it, Even he that is ready to attack the great whale.

9Let the stars of that night be darkened; Let it remain dark, and not come into light; And let it not see the morning star arise:

— Job 3:10 —

11For why died I not in the belly? And why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?

12And why did the knees support me? And why did I suck the breasts?

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