We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Ver. 9. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives.] So did our good ancestors the bread of life, while their preachers also were glad to do as Jotham did, Jdg 9:21 when they had delivered what they had to say, run away, and flee for their lives. See 2 Samuel 23:17 .
Because of the sword of the wilderness.] Where rovers and robbers lay in wait for us; neither could we pass them without apparent peril.