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Job 6:22

Job 6:22

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

Did I say, Bring unto me? The meaning is probably—If this be the ease, if ye are afraid of helping me, why have ye come? Did I ask for your aid? No. I neither requested you to bring me anything for myself, nor to make a present to any one on my behalf; much less did I call upon you to deliver me out of the hand of my enemies, to chastize the Chaldeans and the men of Sheba (, ), and recoverse from them my property.

No; I asked nothing at all of you; but when you came voluntarily, I did expect your pity (). Or, Give a reward for me of your substance? i.e. give a present on my behalf to some influential person, who might thereupon take up my cause and befriend me.

There is no need of supposing a "bribe" to be meant.

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