Verse 17
17. Eye that mocketh The expression is used to denote the “mocking” or cursing child; not merely the disobedient, but the rebellious one.
Despiseth to obey Spurns the control of. It is the same word, with the addition of a single letter marking the feminine gender, which is taken as a proper noun in the first verse and there read jakeh.
The ravens of the valley (or brook) shall pick it out We observe that in attacking a body or carcass, ravens strike first at the eye as a favourite part. Hence bodies of men or beasts left exposed where such fowls have access to them are found with their eyes picked out. The passage, therefore, may be equivalent to a declaration that such an unworthy, irreverent, and disobedient son, shall die a felon’s death, and become, as was often the case, a prey to ravens and eagles.
Young eagles Literally, sons of the eagle.
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