But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
o ויהי כמחריש "et fuit veluti surdus", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus; "fuit quasi obmutescens", Drusius; "veluti tacens [aut] silens", so some in Vatablus; so the Targum.