Every bed, whereon he lieth that hath the issue, is unclean: and every thing, whereon he sitteth, shall be unclean.
Ver. 4. Every bed.] Sin is more catching than any plague, and more defiling than any out house; Mar 7:23 Paul found it as noisome to his soul as a dead body to his sense, Rom 7:24 or as the sanies; a of a plague sore to a rich robe. Job abhors himself for it in dust and ashes. Job 40:4 And Isaiah looks upon himself as an undone man by reason of it. Isa 6:5
a A thin fetid pus mixed with serum or blood, secreted by a wound or ulcer.