set his face. The idiom for expressing. fixed purpose. Compare 2 Kings 12:17.
and upright ones... shall he do. he will make equitable terms with him (i.e. Ptolemy V). The words which follow tell us what the terms were. With this agree the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate.
the daughter of women: i.e. Cleopatra, his own daughter, then only eleven years of age. The term denotes beauty, &c.
women: i.e. her mother and grandmother, probably still caring for her education, &c.
not stand, &c. She sided with her husband, and defeated her father's plans.