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" (Is 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.