[305] Literally _the Group_ and _the Giant_. כימה, Kimah, signifies group, or little heap. Here it is rendered by Aq. and at Job ix. 9 by LXX. Ἀρκτοῦρος; and here by Theod. and in Job xxxviii. 31, _the chain_, or _cluster, of the group_ Πλειάδες. The Targ. and Pesh. always give it as Kima, _i.e._ Pleiades. And this is the rendering of most moderns. But Stern takes it for Sirius with its constellation of the Great Dog, for the reason that this is the brightest of all stars, and therefore a more suitable fellow for Orion than the dimmer Pleiades can be. כסיל, the Fool or Giant, is the Hebrew name of Ὠρίων, by which the LXX. render it. Targum ניפלא. To the ancient world the constellation looked like the figure of a giant fettered in heaven, "a fool so far as he trusted in his bodily strength" (Dillmann). In later times he was called Nimrod. His early setting came at the time of the early rains. Cf. with the passage Job ix. 9 and xxxviii. 31. [306] The abstract noun meaning _deep shadow_, LXX. σκιά, and rendered _shadow of death_ by many modern versions. [307] So LXX., reading שׁבר for שׁד; it improves the rhythm, and escapes the awkward repetition of שׁד. [308] So LXX. [309] Possible alternative: _make stagnant_. [310] _Vision of Piers Plowman_, Passus IV., l. 52. Cf. the whole passage. [311] Uncertain; Hitzig takes it as the apodosis of the previous clause: _Ye shall have to take from him a present of corn_, _i.e._ as alms. [312] See above, p. 33. [313] Cf. "Pecca fortiter." [314] As, for instance, the prophet looks forward to in iii. 12. [315] _God of Hosts_, perhaps an intrusion (?) between אדני and יהוה. [316] I have ventured to rearrange the order of the clauses, which in the original is evidently dislocated. [317] Lit. _the house_. [318] Eph. v. 2; etc. [319] No one doubts that this verse is interrogative. But the Authorised Eng. Ver. puts it in a form--_Have ye brought unto Me?_ etc.--which implies blame that they did not do so. Ewald was the first to see that, as rendered above, an appeal to the forty years was the real intention of the verse. So after him nearly all critics, also the Revised Eng. Ver.: _Did ye bring unto Me?_ On the whole question of the possibility of such an appeal see above, pp. 100 ff., and cf. Jer. vii. 22, which distinctly declares that in the wilderness God prescribed no ritual to Israel.