Job questions why the knees received him and the breasts nursed him, asking why the elemental acts of maternal care occurred rather than an alternative outcome of death. The intimate imagery of maternal embrace and nursing reveals that even the deepest human bonds of love and care are now experienced as tragic, because they preserved him for later suffering. Maternal love, which is typically celebrated as sacred, becomes in the context of suffering a vehicle for perpetuating pain.

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