They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Ver. 15. They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, &c.] My tenants, or my guests, or my sojourners, those widows and orphans haply, whom he kept at his own charge, Job 31:32. More than this, my maidens, those housekeepers, intrusted with the keys of the family, and that are no drudges to wash the feet of other servants, as 1 Samuel 25:41. And for his servants of the other sex, he was as coarsely used by them too.