“Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.”
Job curses the day because it did not shut the doors of the womb, preventing his birth and sparing him the knowledge of trouble. The image of closed womb-doors reveals the wish for maternal protection that would have kept him from entering a world of suffering. This regret at birth inverts the normal blessing of fertility and maternal love, treating the womb as a haven tragically left behind rather than a source of life to be celebrated.
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