Jeremiah 11:19

The prophet no more expected harm from his kindred than does the pet lamb from the family with which it lives (cp. 2 Samuel 12:3).

gentle A.V. "an ox" represents the Hebrew word identical in form indeed with one so rendered in Psalms 144:14 (where, however, the sense is dubious), but here the meaning is familiar, domesticated (cp. the rendering "companion" in Psalms 55:13). It is rendered "friends" in Jeremiah 13:21.

fruit mg. Heb. bread. So the LXX read, but it is tempting to omit (with Hitzig, and Dr.) one Hebrew consonant, and so obtain the much needed improvement "sap." Thus we shall get the meaning to be, not the words which came from Jeremiah, as fruit from a tree, but his vigorous youth.