eateth] Or, did eat. taketh it even out of the thorns] Though the field were hedged about with thorns, yet they took away the crop: for hunger will break thorow stone walls: or, they gather it out of the thorns, Genesis 3:18. and 4. 12. which the field was overgrown with. taketh] Or, took. the robber] The word signifies, thirsty, for robbers thirst after other mens wealth, Job 18:9. swalloweth] Or, swallowed. swalloweth up their substance] By changing the number, he shews that he knew many such fools.