And he said, if the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I
help
thee?
&c.] Mistaking her meaning, as if she prayed him to relieve
her hunger; the margin of our Bible is, "let not the Lord save
thee"; and so some understand it as a wish that she might perish;
and so Josephus {o}, that being wroth, he cursed her in the name
of God:
out of the barn floor, or out of the winepress?
when neither of them afforded anything; no corn was to be had
from the one, nor wine from the other, no, not for his own use,
and therefore how could he help her out of either?