if the grape gatherers. Some codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "or if", &c.
would they not. ? Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 24:21). App-92. Compare Isaiah 17:6; Isaiah 24:13.
Related Commentaries of Obadiah 1:5
Obadiah 1:5
5 If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?