My little, &c.] A proverbiall and hyperbolicall speech. By little (for the word finger is not in the Hebrew, but yet fitly supplied) he means the least and weakest member of the body: By loins, the side, or thigh, or back, which are the greatest and strongest parts: whereby he implieth, That his power and courage farre surpassed his fathers. He alludes to his fathers youth, when the crown was first set on his head, chap. 3. 7. 1 Chron. 22. 5. and to his own man-age, chap. 14 21. Yet it is a speech full of great pride, boldnesse, folly and falshood.