Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
what wilt thou give?—As if overwhelmed by feeling, he deliberates with God what is most desirable.
give . . . a miscarrying womb—Of two evils he chooses the least. So great will be the calamity, that barrenness will be a blessing, though usually counted a great misfortune (Job 3:3; Jeremiah 20:14; Luke 23:29).
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