John Gill's Exposition on Job 38:41

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Who provideth for the raven his food? etc.] Not man, but God; he feeds the ravens, creatures very voracious, mean, and useless, (<421224>Luke 12:24); when his young ones cry unto God; cry for want of food; which is interpreted by the Lord as a cry unto him, and he relieves them, (<19E709>Psalm 147:9); when deserted by the old ones; either left in their nests through forgetfulness, as some f1341; or because they are not, till fledged, black like them, as others f1342; when God feeds them, as some say f1343, with a kind of dew from heaven, or with flies that fly about them, and fall into their mouths; or with worms bred out of their dung but these things are not to be depended on; it may rather respect them when cast out of the nest by the old ones, when able to fly, which is testified by naturalists f1344; and with this agrees what follows: they wander for lack of meat; being obliged to shift for themselves, when God takes care of them; which is an instance of his providential goodness; and how this is to be improved, (see <400626>Matthew 6:26 <421224>Luke 12:24).

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