O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!Psalm 127:5 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleHappy is the man that hath his quiver full of them - This is generally supposed to mean his house full of children, as his quiver if full of arrows; but I submit whether it be not more congenial to the metaphors in the text to consider it as applying to the wife: "Happy is the man who has a breeding or fruitful wife;" this is the gravida sagittis pharetra "the quiver pregnant with arrows." But it may be thought the metaphor is not natural. I think otherwise: and I know it to be in the Jewish style, and the style of the times of the captivity, when this Psalm was written, and we find the pudendum muliebre, or human matrix, thus denominated, Ecclus. 26:12: Κατεναντι παντος πασσαλου καθησεται, και εναντι βελους ανοιξει φαρετραν. The reader may consult the place in the Apocrypha, where he will find the verse well enough translated.
With the enemies in the gate - "When he shall contend with his adversaries in the gate of the house of judgment." - Targum. The reference is either to courts of justice, which were held at the gates of cities, or to robbers who endeavor to force their way into a house to spoil the inhabitants of their goods. In the first case a man falsely accused, who has a numerous family, has as many witnesses in his behalf as he has children. And in the second case he is not afraid of marauders, because his house is well defended by his active and vigorous sons. It is, I believe, to this last that the psalmist refers.
This Psalm may be entitled, "The Soliloquy of the happy Householder: - The poor man with a large loving family, and in annual expectation of an increase, because his wife, under the Divine blessing, is fruitful." All are blessed of the Lord, and his hand is invariably upon them for good.
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Genesis 50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation...
Job 1:2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Job 42:12-16 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels...
his quiver full of them. Heb. filled his quiver with them.
they shall
Job 5:4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Proverbs 27:11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproaches me.
speak. or, subdue
Psalm 18:47 It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.
or, destroy
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