God who gives the life provides also the raiment and the bodily health: see Matthew 6:25. Jewish commentators understood this description literally, but it is evidently poetical and rhetorical.

6-20. A warning against pride and self-sufficiency: see on Deuteronomy 4:25.

7-9. The gifts of God in the rich and beautiful land of Canaan are a motive to thankfulness and obedience, but may become a temptation to forgetfulness and pride: see on Deuteronomy 4:25.

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