For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part [is] that goeth down to the battle, so [shall] his part [be] that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.
Ver. 24. For who will hearken unto you?] Who that is unbiassed and impartial? Who that hath any ingenuity? &c.
But as his part is that, &c.] This is so far ex aequo et bono, agreeable to good reason, that the Romans also had the like law amongst them, as Polybius writeth. a See the like done, Numbers 31:25,40 Joshua 22:10,11; Jos 2:1-24 Ma 8:28.
a Lib. x. Pariter partientur.