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Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Job 15:23

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Job15:23

23. Wandereth in anxious search for bread. Famine in Old Testament depicts sore need (Is 5:13). Contrast the pious man's lot (Job 5:20-22).

knoweth--has the firm conviction. Contrast the same word applied to the pious (Job 5:24, 25).

ready at his hand--an Arabic phrase to denote a thing's complete readiness and full presence, as if in the hand.

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