Notes, Critical and Explanatory, on the Holy Scriptures

The meaning of V. is, that the just man, who is oompared to a lamp dimly shining, in the estimate of the rich, is reserved to shine with increased lustre at a time divinely appointed. P. "He that is ready to slip with hit feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease." A man ready to totter and foil in business pursuits, is compared, by the prosperous, to a lamp that is dying out

The daring acts of robbers are in manifest disregard of the blessings bestowed on them by God. R. takes the last phrase to mean, that the robber holds bis God In his hand, deeming everything lawful which gratifies his cupidity.

Things that lay deeply buried.