KJV ORIGINAL
Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
The land was given to them alone, and no foreigners lived among them.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
This verse describes a time when a people had their land all to themselves, with no outsiders mixed in among them.
📚 Historical Context
In the Book of Job, chapter 15, Eliphaz is one of Job's friends who is rebuking him during his suffering by appealing to ancient wisdom. He refers to the early patriarchs or wise ancestors who were given the earth by God and lived in isolation from outsiders, highlighting the purity and reliability of their inherited knowledge. This reflects the ancient Near Eastern cultural emphasis on ancestral traditions as a source of untainted truth.
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