Job 1:21

And said, Naked came I out -That is, destitute of property, for so the connection demands; compare1 Timothy 6:7; “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.” A similar expression also occurs in Pliny, “Hominem natura tanturn nudism.” Nat. Hist. proem. L. vii. Job felt that he was stripped of all, and that he must leave the world as destitute as he entered it. My mother’s womb -The earth - the universal mother. That he refers to the earth is apparent, because he speaks of returning there again. The Chaldee addsקבוּרתאלביתlebēytqebûratā'- “to the house of burial.” The earth is often called the mother of mankind; see Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii.