What sawest thou i.e. "what hadst thou in view?" An unusual use of the verb "to see." Cf. Psalms 66:18, "if I regard (lit. -see") iniquity in my heart." Some scholars prefer, by a slight alteration of the text, the reading, "what didst thou fear?" yarêthafor ra"îtha(Bacher).

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