Amos 2:14
Therefore flight shall perish from the swift, 1 and the chazak shall not strengthen his ko'ach, 1 neither shall the gibbor deliver his own nefesh; 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
13Hinei, I am weighed down by you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. 1
Cross References
Job 11:20But the eyes of the resha'im faileth, 1 and they shall not escape, 1 and their tikveh shall be as the last gasp of the nefesh.
Ecclesiastes 9:11I returned, and saw under the shemesh, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the gibborim, neither yet lechem to the chachamim, nor yet osher to the intelligent, nor yet chen (favor) to the experts; but et (time) and pega (chance) happeneth to them all.
Jeremiah 9:23But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am Hashem Who exercises chesed, mishpat, and tzedakah, on ha'aretz; for in these things I delight, saith Hashem.
Matthew Henry on Amos 2:10-16
God's Remonstrance with Israel. ( b. c. 790.) 9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath. 10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite. 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord . 12 But… Read the whole commentary →