Verse 17
17. Like a cedar Short and firm though the tail may be, it is swayed by the volition of the vast animal like a cedar bough by the wind. The interpretation turns on חפצ , moveth, the fundamental meaning of which is “to will,” “move at pleasure.” The name for cedar, ארז , “has been handed down on the spot [Lebanon] intact throughout all the changes of language, and the name arz is never applied by the natives to any tree but the true cedar.” Tristram. See farther his Land of Israel, 40:628-632.
The sinews, etc. Rather, The sinews of his thighs.
Are wrapped together ישׂרגו . Better, knit together. According to Gesenius and Delitzsch the cognate noun שׂריגים , signifies “vine branches;” the speaker evidently choosing this word on account of its beautiful appropriateness for expressing complex and delicate intertwining of texture.
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