burden] Vers. 1.
Dumah] Jeremiah 49:7. Ezekiel 35:2. Obadiah 1:1.
Dumah] Edom, or Idumea, as Ram for Aram, Job 32:2.
Seir] The Edomites countrey, Deuteronomy 2:4-5.
what of the night?] What saw you the last night? or, how much of the night is spent? The speech of persons possessed with fear of some evil approaching, and enquiring oft of the watchman, whether he discover ought: Or, partly so affected, and partly weary of attending all night in arms; and enquiring how neer it is to break of day, Psalms 130:6.
of the night] Or, saith the watch-man? as Genesis 21:7.