“In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.”
The man's refusal to accept the women's offer—declaring that he has neither food nor clothing to contribute to a household—extends the picture of social collapse by showing that none of the social safety nets of normal society will function in the aftermath of judgment. His explicit refusal despite the women's desperation reveals that poverty will be so universal that even the status of
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