Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Ver. 10. Our skin was black like an oven.] Or, As a chimney, Isa 31:9 being still beaten upon with the fire that is within it,
Because of the terrible famine.] Propter procellas famis, because of the tempests of famine, which, like a violent storm, beareth down all before it.