For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
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Gill's Exposition
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. It is not from men, from themselves, or others, or from any quarter under the heavens, but from God; it is he that…
Barnes' Notes
For promotion - The word used here in the original, and rendered “promotion” - הרים hariym - is susceptible of two quite different significations. According to one - that which is adopted by our…
In these verses we have two great doctrines laid down and two good inferences drawn from them, for the confirmation of what he had before said.
I. Here are two great truths laid down concerning God's…
The reason for this warning. Israel looks to God alone for help, and He is the supreme arbiter of human destinies.