If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
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Gill's Exposition
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee,.... Or "say to thee" (w); ask for anything
for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof; with which, was the former his case, he could satisfy himself; see…
Barnes' Notes
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee - I should not have occasion to apply to you; I should not be dependent on you. For the world is mine - The earth; all that has been created. And the fulness…
God is here dealing with those that placed all their religion in the observances of the ceremonial law, and thought those sufficient.
I. He lays down the original contract between him and Israel, in…
Cambridge Bible
the world is mine&c. Cp. Psa 24:1; Psa 89:11; Exo 19:5; Deu 10:14; Job 41:11; 1Co 10:26.
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