Job 3:3-10
3:5 a Job longed for the sinister darkness of the underworld (Exod 10:22 b; Prov 4:19 c; Joel 2:2 d) and the gloom of death (Job 10:21-22 e; 38:17 f) to claim the day of his birth.3:8 g The expression experts at cursing refers to professional cursers such as Balaam (Num 22–24 h).
3:9 i Venus and Mercury, the morning stars, herald the dawn (38:7 j).
3:10 k shut my mother’s womb: Closing or opening the womb sometimes refers to conception (Gen 16:2 l; 20:18 m; 29:31 n; 30:22 o; 1 Sam 1:5-6 p), but here it refers to birth (see also Job 38:8 q).
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