His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
As the eyes of doves - rather, as doves (Psalms 68:13).
By the rivers of waters, washed with milk - bathing in "the rivers;" combining in their "silver" feathers the whiteness of milk with the sparkling brightness of the water trickling over them. So "the Spirit of God descended like a dove" (Matthew 3:16) upon Jesus, as "He went up straightway out of the water. The "milk" may allude to the white around the pupil of the eye. The "waters" refer to His eye as the fountain of tears of sympathy (Ezekiel 16:5-6). Vivacity, purity, and love are the three features typified.
Fitly set - as a gem in a ring; as the precious stones in the high priest's breastplate. So the Syriac. The Hebrew is sitting upon fullness; i:e., the eyes not sunk in their sockets. Or we may translate as the Vulgate, Septuagint, Ethiopic and Arabic, '(the doves) sitting at the fullness of the stream,' by the full stream, (cf. Revelation 5:6, "Lo, a Lamb having seven eyes:" "seven," expressing full perfection; Zechariah 3:9; Zechariah 4:10).