And there was set [meat] before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
Ver. 33. I will not eat, till I have told mine errand.] He preferred his work before his food. So did our Saviour at the well of Samaria. John 4:6,8 ; Joh 4:31-38 And another time, when he thought to have slaked his hunger at the barren fig tree, and found nothing but leaves, he went on to Jerusalem; and forgetting his hunger, as he had before forgot his breakfast, he turned not into a victualling house, but went to the temple and taught the people; and confuted the elders all that day long till the evening. Mat 21:18-27 Mar 11:13-15 Job "esteemed God's word more than his necessary food"; Job 23:12 not only more than his dainties or superfluities.