Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.
Ibn Ezra
וחדל אישים He ceased to be counted with men. איש מכאבות A man of sorrows. The servant of the Lord, or the whole nation of the Israelites; in the latter case איש is to be compared with the same word in the phrase יי איש מלחמה (Exod. 15:3), and to be explained a being; it is in the construct state. Sorrows, grief. The troubles which Israel has to suffer during the exile are meant. And we hid, as it were, our faces from him. Even in our days there are people who turn aside at the sight of a Jew, lest they may be obliged to assist him.
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