Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
Companions - rather, partners (namely, in fishing).
Make a banquet. The parallelism rather supports Umbreit, 'Do partners (in trade) desire to purchase him?' х kaarah (H3739) `al (H5921)] (so the Hebrew, Deuteronomy 2:6.) DeWette translates as the English version.
Merchants - literally, Canaanites, who were great merchants, (Hosea 12:7, margin.)