The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in
In transacting all the business of life, in going in and out about it; in all ways, works, and conversation; in journeying and travelling; in all affairs, civil and religious; and not only preserve, but prosper in all, ( Psalms 1:3 ) ; the Lord blessing him, coming in and going out, ( Deuteronomy 28:6 ) ; and such, with the poet F24, are said to go with a good or prosperous foot. And such persons, in the Punic language, are called Namphanians, as Austin observes F25; who says the word signifies a man of a good foot: and the word seems to be the contraction of (wmep Men) , which signifies "his good" or "pleasant foot" F26; and so one that, wherever he comes and goes, things prosper with him, and with those that are in connection with him: such an one was Jacob in the house of Laban, whom the Lord blessed, as he says, "since my coming", or at "my foot", (See Gill on Genesis 30:30); and such a foot Joseph had wherever he went, ( Genesis 39:5 Genesis 39:23 ) . Arama interprets it of a man's going out into the air of this world, and of his entrance into the world to come. The Targum is,
``the Lord will keep thy going out to business, and thy coming in to study in the law.''from this time forth, and even for evermore;