Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Ver. 19. Do they provoke me to anger?] i.e., Hurt they me by their provocations? or hope they to get the better of me, and to cause me to lay down the bucklers first? Surely, as Ulysses's companions said to him, when he would needs provoke Polydamas, may we better say to such as provoke the Almighty,
“ Sχετλιε, τιπτ δθελεις εριθεζεμεν αγριον ανδρα .”
Or as the wise man, "Contend not with him that is mightier than thou"; meddle with thy matchman.