29-33. thou shalt grope at noonday—a general description of the painful uncertainty in which they would live. During the Middle Ages the Jews were driven from society into hiding-places which they were afraid to leave, not knowing from what quarter they might be assailed and their children dragged into captivity, from which no friend could rescue, and no money ransom them.

     27. are . . . end—literally, "all their wisdom swallows up itself," destroys itself by vain and contradictory devices, such as despair induces.