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V ers. 18.— Quare de vulva eduxisti me? Qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret. 91. Quod nimirum prima oratione jam protulit, dicens: Quare non in vulva mortuus sum? Qui hoc quoque quod hic adjicit, subdens,—V ers. 19.— Fuis- sem quasi non essem, de utero translatus ad tumulum, illic verbis aliis non alitor adjungit, dicens: Sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem, vel qui con- cepti non viderunt lucem ( Job. iii, 16). Quia vero haec superius late digessimus ( Lib. iv, n. 48 et seq. ), pro vitando lectoris fastidio, exposita replicare declina- mus. Sequitur:
Verse 18. — Why didst Thou bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had been consumed, that no eye might have seen me. 91. This indeed he already uttered in his first discourse, saying: Why did I not die in the womb? He who also adds this which he here subjoins—Verse 19—I should have been as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the tomb—there too he attaches in other words nothing otherwise, saying: I should not have subsisted, but like a hidden untimely birth, or like those who, conceived, saw not the light (Job 3:16). But since we have treated these things at length above (Book IV, no. 48 and following), to avoid wearying the reader we decline to repeat what has been expounded. There follows:
第十八節。——「你為何使我出母胎呢？巴不得我被吞滅，眼不曾見我。」九十一。這事他在頭一次的言論中確已說過，說：「我為何不在母胎中死去呢？」他在此所附加補充的這話——第十九節——「我就如未曾有的一般，從母胎被抱到墳墓」——在那裡他也用別的話毫無二致地補充說：「我不曾存留，倒像隱藏的未足月而墮的胎，又像那些懷了卻不見光的」（約伯記三章十六節）。但因我們在上文已詳論這些事（第四卷第四十八節及以下），為免使讀者生厭，我們不再重述已闡明之事。下文接著說：