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
This is part of Eliphaz's speech to Job, where he's describing what he sees as a golden age of the past when righteous people lived in purity and isolation. Eliphaz is arguing that wisdom comes from this untainted heritage of the ancestors who lived in their own land without foreign influence.
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