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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 5:5 - 5:5
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even out of the thorns - Even when part of the grain remains hanging on the thorn bushes (or, “is growing among thorns,” Mat 13:7), the hungry gleaner does not grudge the trouble of even taking it away, so clean swept away is the harvest of the wicked.
the robber - as the Sabeans, who robbed Job. Rather, translate “the thirsty,” as the antithesis in the parallelism, “the hungry,” proves.