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He wanders abroad for bread, saying, `Where is it?` He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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The Inner Turmoil of the Wicked
Eliphaz describes the wicked person as being in a state of constant anxiety. Commentators explain that even with apparent wealth, this person 'wandereth abroad for bread,' symbolizing a deep insecurity and fear of losing everything. They live with the knowledge that a 'day of darkness'—a sudden calamity—is always near, robbing them of any true peace or security.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
He wandereth abroad for bread - The Septuagint renders this, “he is destined to be food for vultures” - κατατέτακται δ…
19th Century
Anglican
He wandereth abroad for bread.—This is one of the points in which the picture seems inconsistent, because overdrawn, except that forage as…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He wandereth abroad for bread Either as a plunderer and robber, he roves about to increase his worldly power and sub…
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Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable, from which he would infer that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore that Jo…
13th Century
Catholic
After Eliphaz had censured Job for provoking God to an argument, which he thought amounted to a presumption of wisdom, he now censures him for a pr…
