He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. A pelican, and so forth I am become, through grief, like birds that affect solitude and darkness. Challoner.—Kaath comes from a root that signifies to vomit ( Bible.) as this bird lives chiefly on shell-fish, which it swallows, and when the heat of its stomach has caused the shells to open, it throws them up again, and eats the fish. Bochart. Parkhurst in ka. Bible.—It seems to be the onocratalus, which resembles the heron. What many of the ancients have related concerning its giving life again to its young, by its blood, and so forth must be accounted fabulous. The Fathers have not expressed these facts as certain, ( Calmet.) though they have beautifully accommodated them to the tenderness and grace, which Christ has shewn to lost man. See Euseb. and Saint Augustine Bible.—Raven. Owl, or rather another species of pelican, so called from having a bag under its chap, “to inclose” fish, and so forth Parkhurst in cose.—With its prey it retires to solitary places. So the distressed love solitude and silence. Bible.