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Gen_24:33 And there was set [meat] before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
Ver. 33. I will not eat, till I have told mine errand.] He preferred his work before his food. So did our Saviour at the well of Samaria. {Joh_4:6-8; Joh_4:31-38} And another time, when he thought to have slaked his hunger at the barren fig tree, and found nothing but leaves, he went on to Jerusalem; and forgetting his hunger, as he had before forgot his breakfast, he turned not into a victualling house, but went to the temple and taught the people; and confuted the elders all that day long till the evening. {Mat_21:18-27 Mar_11:13-15} Job "esteemed God’s word more than his necessary food"; {Job_23:12} not only more than his dainties or superfluities.