23
An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 23. Fathers. Heirs often lose their property by their misconduct. Hebrew and ( Bible.) Chal. read, “of the poor,” who till their land better than those who have too large farms. Menochius.—Nature requires but little. Calmet.—Septuagint “the just shall spend many years in affluence: but the unjust are cut off at once.” Bible.
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