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24 He who robbeth his father and mother, and saith:
It is no wrong, Is a companion of the destroyer.
The second line is related to Pro 18:9. Instead of dominus perditionis there found, there is here אִישׁ מַשְׁחיִת, vir perdens (perditor); the word thus denotes a man who destroys, not from revenge, but from lust, and for the sake of the life of men, and that which is valuable for men; thus the spoiler, the incendiary, etc. Instead of אָח there, here we have חָבֵר in the same sense. He who robs his parents, i.e., takes to himself what belongs to them, and regards his doing so as no particular sin,
(Note: Accentuate וְאֹמֵר אֵין פשׁע without Makkeph, as in Codd. 1294 and old editions.)
because he will at last come to inherit it all (cf. Pro 20:21 with Pro 19:26), to to be likened to a man who allows himself in all offences against the life and property of his neighbour; for what the deed of such a son wants in external violence, it makes up in its wickedness, because it is a rude violation of the tenderest and holiest demands of duty.