An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…

The Hebrew word for word is thus rendered, Because it shut not up the doors of my belly. ¹And that the Chaldee Paraphrast renders thus by way of explanation, Because it did not shut up the doors of my lips; the mouth (saith he) being (as it were) the door or the in-let to the belly or stomach, every thing goeth in by that door; and so he carries the sense thus, let that night be cursed because it did not stop my breath, and so make an end of me; The Septuagint hath it thus,² because it shut not up [the doors of my Mothers belly,] which answers our translation, the doors of my mothers womb. Mr. Broughton to the same sense, because it shut not up the door of the belly that did bear me, that is, my mothers belly.

The Hebrew word for word is thus rendred, Because it shut not up the doores of my belly. ¹And that the Chaldee Paraphrast renders thus by way of explanation, Because it did not shut up the doores of my lips; the mouth (saith he) being (as it were) the doore or the in-let to the belly or stomack, every thing goeth in by that doore; and so he carries the sense thus, let that night be cursed because it did not stop my breath, and so make an end of mee; The Septuagint hath it thus,² because it shut not up [the doores of my Mothers belly,] which answers our translation, the doores of my mothers wombe. Mr. Broughton to the same sense, because it shut not up the doore of the belly that did beare me, that is, my mothers belly.

1. 1Quia non conclusit portas maxillarum mearum, quae sunt ostia ventris.
2. 2[Greek or Hebrew]. Sept.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Sept.