Deu 28:54-57 | KD | STEP | The effeminate and luxurious man would look with ill-favour upon his brother, the wife of his bosom, and his remaining children, “to give” (so that he would not give) to one of them of the flesh of his children which he was consuming, because there was nothing left to him in the siege. “ His eye shall be evil ,” i.e., look with envy or ill-favour (cf. ). השׁאיר מבּלי, on account of there not being anything left for himself. כּל with בּלי signifies literally “ all not ,” i.e., nothing at all. השׁאיר, an infinitive, as in (see at ).

‏ Deuteronomy 28:54-57

The effeminate and luxurious man would look with ill-favour upon his brother, the wife of his bosom, and his remaining children, “to give” (so that he would not give) to one of them of the flesh of his children which he was consuming, because there was nothing left to him in the siege. “His eye shall be evil,” i.e., look with envy or ill-favour (cf. Deu 15:9). השׁאיר מבּלי, on account of there not being anything left for himself. כּל with בּלי signifies literally “all not,” i.e., nothing at all. השׁאיר, an infinitive, as in Deu 3:3 (see at Deu 28:48). Deu 28:56-57

The delicate and luxurious woman, who had not attempted to put her feet to the ground (had always been carried therefore either upon a litter or an ass: cf. Jdg 5:10, and Arvieux, Sitten der Beduinen Ar. p. 143), from tenderness and delicacy - her eye would look with envy upon the husband of her bosom and her children, and that (vav expl.) because of (for) her after-birth, which cometh out from between her feet, and because of her children which she bears (sc., during the siege); “for she will eat them secretly in the want of everything,” that is to say, first of all attempt to appease her hunger with the after-birth, and then, when there was no more left, with her own children. To such an awful height would the famine rise!