And seek you great things for yourself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring disaster upon all flesh,
says the LORD:
but your life will I give unto you for a prize in all places where you go.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Great: the spirit of prophecy; (Rabbins) or rather to be exempted from suffering, while all the neighbouring nations were perishing. (Calmet)
And save. Literally, "for salvation. "Hebrew, "booty. "(Haydock)
He seems to have been set at liberty with his master, chap. xl. 1. (Calmet)