For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
Ver. 7. For their riches were more, &c.] And besides, mount Seir was more fit for a hunter. A good ease it was to Jacob, who had little joy in his neighbourhood. "God will not take the ungodly by the hand"; Job 8:20 , marg. no more will his people. When they are forced to be in ill company, they cry, "Oh that I had the wings of a dove! that I might flee away": Psa 55:6 or if that "Oh" will not set them at liberty, they take up that "Woe," to express their misery; "Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech!" &c. Psa 120:5 It was once the prayer of a good gentlewoman, when she came to die, being in much trouble of conscience: O Lord, let me not go to hell, where the wicked are; for, Lord, thou knowest I never loved their company here. a
a Moses's Choice, by M. Bur., p. 330.