He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 19. Stakes. Serpents attack the eyes of the elephant, and sometimes drag it by the trunk into the deep, where it is drowned. Pliny viii. 12. Solin xxxviii.—Others read with an interrogation: “Shall one take?” and so forth Will any one dare to attack it openly? The elephant is taken by stratagem, either in pits covered with a little earth, or by a tame elephant in an inclosure, and ( Calmet.) lying on her hack to receive the male. Arist. anim. verse 2.—When he has entered, the gate is shut, and the animal is tamed by hunger; being thus taken by his eyes. Judith 10:17. Chal. “They pierce his nostrils with bands.” Thus other animals are led about, (verse 21) and the elephant might be so treated in those days; though of this we have no account. Calmet.—Prot. “his nose pierceth through snares;” or marg. “will any bore his nose with a gin?” Here they conclude this chapter, which commences Calmet. 39:31 in Hebrew But the Septuagint agree with us. Bible.