27. literally, "ye cause" (supply, "your anger")
[UMBREIT], a net,
namely, of sophistry [NOYES and
SCHUTTENS], to fall upon the desolate (one
bereft of help, like the fatherless orphan);
and ye dig (a pit) for your friend--that is, try to ensnare him, to
catch him in the use of unguarded language
[NOYES].
(Ps 57:6);
metaphor from hunters catching wild beasts in a pit covered with
brushwood to conceal it. UMBREIT from the
Syriac, and answering to his interpretation of the first clause,
has, "Would you be indignant against your friend?" The
Hebrew in
Job 41:6,
means to "feast upon." As the first clause asks, "Would you catch
him in a net?" so this follows up the image, "And would you next
feast upon him, and his miseries?" So the Septuagint.
JFB.
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