John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 5:18
Go therefore now, and work ,.... Go about your business, attend to your work, even you officers, as well as your people; work yourselves, as well as see that your people do theirs, and do not trouble me with such impertinent applications: for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks ; the usual number of bricks, as the Vulgate Latin version has it; though in Exodus 5:8 , it is rendered in that version the measure of bricks, and so another word is... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 5:15-23
It was a great strait that the head-workmen were in, when they must either abuse those that were under them or be abused by those that were over them; yet, it should seem, rather than they would tyrannize, they would be tyrannized over; and they were so. In this evil case (Exod. 5:19), observe, I. How justly they complained to Pharaoh: They came and cried unto Pharaoh, Exod. 5:15. Whither should they go with a remonstrance of their grievances but to the supreme power, which is ordained for the... read more