(6)
“It is Jehovah that ye requite thus!
A people foolish and unwise!
Is not He thy Father that hath gotten thee?
He made thee and establisheth thee.”
The first line is an exclamatory question. A question and an exclamation have the same name in the Rabbinical writings. “Hath gotten” in the third line is the same expression which Eve used (in Genesis 4:1) at the birth of Cain, and occurs also in that magnificent saying in the history of Wisdom, Proverbs 8:22, “The Lord begat me (as) the beginning of his way.”