Even though they should rear their children, yet will I bereave them (the Ephraimites) of them (Job 27:14).
woe ... to them when I depart - Yet the ungodly in their madness desire God to depart from them (Job 21:14; Job 22:17; Mat 8:34). At last they know to their cost how awful it is when God has departed (Deu 31:17; 1Sa 28:15, 1Sa 28:16; compare Hos 9:11; 1Sa 4:21).