What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
Ver. 2. What, my son? and what, the son of my womb?] An abrupt speech, importing abundance of affection; even more than might be uttered. There is an ocean of love in a parent's heart, a fathomless depth of desire after the child's welfare, in the mother especially. Some of the Hebrew doctors hold that this was Bathsheba's speech to her son after his father's death, when she partly perceived which way his genius leaned and led him: that she schooled him in this way, q.d., Is it even so, my son, my most dear son, &c. Oh do not give thy strength to women, &c.