Judges 13:12

Now let thy words come to pass The marg. is to be preferred; for a conditional clause without the conditional particle in Hebrew cf. Numbers 12:14, and see Driver, Tenses, § 155. To relieve the obscurity, it is proposed to read -ethfor -attah, -at the time when" (König, Syntax, § 385 k), but this is a rather poetical and late construction, Deuteronomy 32:35; Job 6:17 etc.

the manner i.e. what descriptionof child shall he be? cf. 2 Kings 1:7. By his workis meant business, occupation, cf. Genesis 46:33; 1 Samuel 25:2 RVm. Cf. St. Luke 1:66.