Coincidences with descriptions of events in the Pentateuch and the Psalms, and with sentiments expressed in the Proverbs, are fairly numerous.

12. πράκτορες] Vulg. exactores. There are two similar roots in Heb., ABBREVand ABBREVmeaning respectively ‘be with young’ and unjustly,’ ‘ill-treat.’ The former is preferable here, the sense resembling ver. 4; but Lxx. have rendered as from the latter. καλαμῶνται, ‘glean,’ almost in sense of English

ἀπαιτοῦντες] Heb. ‘women.’ One discrepancy in the mm. is often followed by more, a wrong idea of the context perhaps influencing the translator. Here it looks as if ABBREV‘and women,’ had been with ABBREV‘oppressors’ just above, the parallel ‘children’ having been lost.

μακαρίξοντες] Vulg. qui te beatum dicunt: the Heb. meaning either ‘guide,’ ‘lead,’ or ‘call happy,’ Gen. xxx. 13. The former is probably right, and generally adopted. Cf. ix. 16. ῥύσασθε, i. 17, represents the same word.

ταράσσουσιν] Ηeb. ‘swallow up,’ the root, perhaps, of the name ‘Balaam.’ ABBREVThe LXX. gives an easy paraphrase; the more likely suggests obliterating a track. Vulg. viam gresmum tuorum ’pant. Govett suggested that not. read ABBREV.