and so the Targum here has it,"to the house of the grave,''where he should lie unseen, as in his mother's womb, till the resurrection morn; which would be a kind of a regeneration of him, when he should be delivered up from thence, and enjoy a state of happiness and glory: he should descend into the grave as naked as he was born, respecting not so much the nakedness of his body, as being stripped of all worldly enjoyments, see Ec 5:15 and he says this in his present view of things; he thought once he should have died in his nest
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Job 30:23
Job 30:23
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