as a lion runs about here and there, when almost famished with hunger; and it also denotes the insidious methods, wiles, and stratagems Satan takes to surprise men, and get an advantage of them: he takes a tour, and comes round upon them, upon the back of them, at an unawares, so that they have need to be always sober, and upon their guard:seeking whom he may devour; this is the end of his walking about: and the like is expressed in the Targum on
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Job 1:7
Job 1:7
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