ἔντιμον] A.V. ‘honourable,’ but a different word from ver. 3. Delitzsch praises the rendering of this clause.

6. ABBREVinserted to help the sense, οἰκείου being an interpretation ‘house.’

βρῶμα] Α comparison of iv. 1 may have suggested this, and ABBREV read as ’anaD; otherwise πτῶμα, as in viii. 14, might have been expected; Schleusner suggested this, instancing Prov. xvi. 18. Such dialogues are not uncommon in the prophets: see xxix. II, 12, Amos vi. 10, Zech. viii. 23, xiii. 5, 6, θc.

ὑπὸ σὲ] Heb. ‘under thy hand,’ meaning little more than ‘in thy power,’ panes ta.

7. ἀρχηγὸς] Heb. has not properly ‘ruler’ as before, but a ‘binder up’: which LXX. may have paraphrased to assimilate answer, or taken the Heb. word in a secondary sense of ‘restraining’ or ‘governing.