Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
(217) The true reading is no doubt עדינו; and Blayney thinks that there is a ו wanting before the next verb, as it is in other in other instances; 1 Kings 1:14; Job 1:16. It is supplied in the Sept., Syr., and Vulg. 