Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Ver. 14. Let them alone] A dreadful doom; like that, Hosea 4:14; "I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom," &c. No so great punishment as not to be punished. And,Hosea 4:17; of that same chapter, "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone:" q.d. he hath made a match with mischief, he shall have his belly full of it. Never was Jerusalem's condition so desperate as when God said unto her, "My fury shall depart from thee, I will be quiet, and no more angry," Ezekiel 16:42. A man is ever and anon meddling with his fruit trees, paring and pruning, &c.; but for his oaks, and other trees of the forest, he lets them alone, till he comes, once for all, with his axe to fell them.
Both shall fall into the ditch] Though the blind guides fall undermost, and have the worst of it.