Psalms 128:6

Verse 6. Houses. Which were flat, so that grass might grow, but the heat of the climate would not suffer it to come to perfection.—Up. Saint Jerome—Chal. “flourish,” as some copies of the Septuagint read. Yet Hammond, and so forth declare for our version. The precise import of the Hebrew is not known. The same comparison occurs, (4 Kennicott. 19:26. Calmet.) and Plautus says, Qualis solstitialis herba paulisper fui, and so forth Pseud. i. Bible.