Lev 19:32, 2Ki 2:23, Job 30:1-12, Isa 1:4 | TSK

Leviticus 19:32

14; 1Ki 2:19; Job 32:4,6; Pr 16:31; 20:29; Isa 3:5; La 5:12; Ro 13:7

2 Kings 2:23

Beth-el.

1Ki 12:28-32; Ho 4:15; 10:5,15; Am 3:14; 4:4; 5:5; 7:13

little children.The words {nëârim ketannim} not only signify little children but young men; for {katon} signifies not only little, but young, in opposition to old; and {näâr} signifies not only a child, but a young man grown to years of maturity: thus Isaac is called {näâr} when twenty-eight years old, Joseph when thirty-nine, and Rehoboam when forty. These idolatrous young men, having heard of the ascension of Elijah, without believing it, blasphemously bade Elisha to follow him. The venerable prophet, from a Divine impulse, pronounced a curse "in the name of the Lord," which was immediately followed by the most terrible judgment; thus evincing the Source from which it flowed.

Job 19:18; 30:1,8-31; Pr 20:11; 22:6,15; Ec 11:10; Isa 1:4; 3:5

Jer 7:18

mocked.

Ge 21:9; 2Ch 36:16; Job 30:1,8,9; Ps 35:15; Isa 57:3,4; Ga 4:29

Heb 11:36

Go up.

11; Mt 27:29-31,40-43

Job 30:1-12

1 Job's honour is turned into extreme contempt;

15 and his prosperity into calamity.

they that are.

19:13-19; 29:8-10; 2Ki 2:23; Isa 3:5

younger than I. Heb. of fewer days than I. whose.

Ps 35:15,16; 69:12; Mr 14:65; 15:17-20; Lu 23:14,18,35,39; Ac 17:5

Tit 1:12

solitary. or, dark as the night.

24:13-16

fleeing into.

24:5; Heb 11:38

in former time. Heb. yesternight.

mallows.The Hebrew {malluäch,} in Arabic, {malluch,} and in Syriac {mallucho,} is probably the [Lalima or Lalimos] of the Greeks, and {halimus} of the Romans, which Dioscorides describes as a kind of bramble, without thorns, the leaves of which are boiled and eaten.

juniper roots.The Hebrew {rothem,} in Arabic, {ratim,} and in Spanish, {retama,} most probably signifies the {genista} or broom, which is very abundant in the deserts of Arabia.

for their meat.

2Ki 4:38,39; Am 7:14; Lu 15:16

driven.

Ge 4:12-14; Ps 109:10; Da 4:25,32,33

dwell.

Jud 6:2; 1Sa 22:1,2; Isa 2:19; Re 6:15

caves. Heb. holes.

brayed.

6:5; 11:12; Ge 16:12

the nettles.{Charul} probably denotes some kind of briar or bramble: so Vulgate renders it by {spina} or {sentis,} (Pr 24:31. Zep 2:9.) Celsius and Scheuchzer are inclined to think it the {paliurus,} a shrub growing sometimes to a considerable height in desert places. "One of the inconveniences of the vegetable thickets of Egypt is," says Denon, "that it is difficult to remain in them, as nine tenths of the trees and plants are armed with inexorable thorns, which suffer only an unquiet enjoyment of the shadow which is so constantly desirable."

children.

2Ki 8:18,27; 2Ch 22:3; Ps 49:10-13; Jer 7:18; Mr 6:24

fools.

Pr 1:7,22; 16:22

base men. Heb. men of no name. viler.

40:4; Ps 15:4; Isa 32:6

am I.

17:6; Ps 35:15,16; 44:14; 69:12; La 3:14,63

abhor me.

19:19; 42:6; Ps 88:8; Zec 11:8

flee far.

19:13,14; Ps 88:8; Pr 19:7; Mt 26:56