27. stocks--in which the prisoner's feet were made fast until the
time of execution
(Jer 20:2).
lookest narrowly--as an overseer would watch a prisoner.
print--Either the stocks, or his disease, marked his soles (Hebrew, "roots") as the bastinado would. Better, thou drawest (or
diggest) [GESENIUS] a line (or trench)
[GESENIUS] round my soles,
beyond which I must not move [UMBREIT].
JFB.
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