If I were hungry, I would not tell thee,.... Or "say to thee" ; ask for anythingfor the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof; with which, was the former his case, he could satisfy himself; see Ps 24:1.
Kl rma al "non dicam tibi", V. L.
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Psalms 50:12
Psalms 50:12
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