They have cast me forth and now they have surrounded me: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.
Radak
At our steps: – אַשֻּׁרֵינוּ with a daghesh in the shin; and so: “if my step (אַשֻּׁרִי) has turned aside from Thy way” (Job 31:7). now have they surrounded us: – The Kethib (סבבוני = they have surrounded me) is written with yodh, but the Keri reads with waw (סבבונו = they have surrounded us); (the expression) is plural (us) as referring to himself and his friends who collected together with him as he fled before Saul, and singular as referring to himselt, for he is the principal. And he says: our steps, because when they have come to know our way in which we go now they have surrounded us, (i.e.) at once they pursue us and surround us. They set their eyes to cast us down in the earth: – They set their eyes upon our way to cast their net in the earth to take us.
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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