Verse 17
17. About the heap Literally, Over a heap (of stones) are his roots intertwined: he seeth a house of stones. A stone heap ( גל ) sometimes served for a memorial of honour. Genesis 31:46-48. Joseph, (also of Egypt,) on the contrary, was a fruitful bough, whose branches ran over the wall. Genesis 49:22.
Seeth the place of stones Rather, A house of stones. “He is like a tree which seems firmly rooted in a heap of stones, and looks down, as it were, with a domineering aspect and a proud consciousness of strength on a house of stone, in which he appears to be firmly built as in a marble palace; yet he will soon be withered and rooted up, and vanish from the face of the earth.” Wordsworth. Comp. Matthew 13:5-6.
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