to deal = to break. The technical term for giving or partaking of food, as in Luk_24:30, Luk_24:35. Act_2:42, Act_2:46; Act_20:7, Act_20:11; Act_27:36. 1Co_10:16; 1Co_11:24. Compare Job_42:11. Lam_4:4. Eze_18:7; Eze_24:17. Hos_9:4.
bread. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), for all kinds of food.
poor. Hebrew. 'anah. See note on Pro_6:11.
hide not. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "do not thou hide".
thine own flesh. Reference to Pentateuch (Gen_29:14).