Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
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Gill's Exposition
Men groan from out of the city,.... Because of the oppressions and injuries done to them, so that not only the poor in the country that were employed in the fields, and oliveyards, and vineyards, were…
Barnes' Notes
Men groan from out of the city - The evident meaning of this is, that the sorrows caused by oppression were not confined to the deserts and to solitary places; were not seen only where the wandering…
Job's friends had been very positive in it that they should soon see the fall of wicked people, how much soever they might prosper for a while. By no means, says Job; though times are not hidden from…
Cambridge Bible
Men groan from out of the city Rather, according to the pointing, from out of the populous city they groan. In this, however, there is no parallelism to the "soul of the wounded" in next clause. By a…
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