Hos 9:12 | JFB | STEP | 12. Even though they should rear their children, yet will I bereave them (the Ephraimites) of them ( ). woe ... to them when I depart-- Yet the ungodly in their madness desire God to depart from them ( ; ; ). At last they know to their cost how awful it is when God has departed ( ; , ; compare ; ).

‏ Hosea 9:12

12. 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; 22:17; Mt 8:34). At last they know to their cost how awful it is when God has departed (De 31:17; 1Sa 28:15, 16; compare Ho 9:11; 1Sa 4:21).