10. seek to please--"Atone to the poor" (by restoring the property
of which they had been robbed by the father)
[DE WETTE]. Better than
English Version, "The children" are reduced to the humiliating
condition of "seeking the favor of those very poor," whom the father
had oppressed. But UMBREIT translates as Margin.
his hands--rather, "their (the children's) hands."
their goods--the goods of the poor. Righteous retribution!
(Ex 20:5).
JFB.
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