Hab 2:19 | JFB | STEP | 19. Awake —Arise to my help. it shall teach! —rather, An exclamation of the prophet, implying an ironical question to which a negative answer must be given. What! "It teach?" Certainly not [MAURER ]. Or, "It (the idol itself) shall (that is, ought to) teach you that it is deaf, and therefore no God" [CALVIN ]. Compare "they are their own witnesses" ( ). Behold —The Hebrew is nominative, "There it is" [HENDERSON ]. it is laid over with gold . . . no breath . . . in the midst —Outside it has some splendor, within none.

Habakkuk 2:19

19. Awake—Arise to my help.

it shall teach!—rather, An exclamation of the prophet, implying an ironical question to which a negative answer must be given. What! "It teach?" Certainly not [MAURER]. Or, "It (the idol itself) shall (that is, ought to) teach you that it is deaf, and therefore no God" [CALVIN]. Compare "they are their own witnesses" (Isa 44:9).

Behold—The Hebrew is nominative, "There it is" [HENDERSON].

it is laid over with gold . . . no breath . . . in the midst—Outside it has some splendor, within none.