4. Hear--The nobles needed to be urged thus, as hating to hear reproof.
swallow up the needy--or, "gape after," that is, pant for their goods;
so the word is used,
Job 7:2,
Margin.
to make the poor . . . to fail--"that they (themselves) may be placed
alone in the midst of the earth"
(Isa 5:8).
JFB.
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