Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man [which is] with thy servants: [there is] no want of any thing.
Ver. 19. Yet there is both straw and provender, &c.] So that we shall be no way chargeable or troublesome, but only for houseroom. Job had this to say for himself, "The stranger did not lodge in the street, but I opened my doors to the traveller." Job 31:32 But now, alas (as one not without cause complaineth), Eliajah lacketh his hostess of Sarepta; Elisha, the Shunamite; Paul cannot find the Purpuriss, nor Peter, the tanner. Job we have not, nor Lot we find not. Captain Cornelius is a black swan in this generation, &c.