Job Chapter 15 verse 19 Holy Bible
Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
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For only to them was the land given, and no strange people were among them:)
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Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
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To them alone was the land given, And a stranger passed not over into their midst:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - Unto whom alone the earth was given. The reference is clearly to a very remote time, when men were comparatively few, and lived in quiet possession of their own lands, undisturbed by invasions, wars, or struggles for territory. Professor Lee thinks that the times immediately after, and even those before, the Flood are glanced at; while Schultens regards Eliphaz as alluding to the first settlements of the Joktanidae in Arabia. In either case, the passage tells in favour or, and not against, the antiquity of the Book of Job, since it marks the composer as "living at a time when the memory of an age of patriarchal simplicity was yet fresh in men's minds" (Canon Cook). And no stranger passed among them. Races were not mixed up one with another, and so the purity of primitive doctrine remained undisturbed.
