Friday, October 15, 2021

"Montezuma"

Back in May, I wrote that the line "As naked as when they came" in "Montezuma" bears some resemblance to Job 1:21:  "And he [Job] said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return.  The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.'"  A couple months ago, however, I was reading Ecclesiastes and found a stronger resemblance in 5:15:  "As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand."