The fish which we did eat freely Either without price, for fish was very plentiful, and fishing there free, or at a very small price. Our soul Either our life, as the term signifies, Genesis 9:5, or our body, which is often intended by the word soul. Dried-away Is withered, and pines away, which possibly might be true, through their envy, discontent, and inordinate appetite. The expression seems to be of the same purport with that of the psalmist, Psalms 102:4, My heart is withered like grass.
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Numbers 11:5-6
5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.