Ezekiel 15:3

3 Shall wood be taken from it to do a work? Will men take a peg from it to hang any vessel thereon?

Ezekiel 15:3 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 15:3

Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work?
&c.] The carpenter and joiner, the house or ship builder, are employed in; as to build houses of, make beams, rafters, floors build ships with, make masts of or any vessel or utensil for the use of man? it never is; it is not fit for any such purpose. Pliny F4 speaks of some rarities made of the wood of vines, but not things of common use; and these not of any vines, but of some peculiar ones, favoured by the air and soil or will [men] take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?
it is not fit to make a peg of to hang a hat on; and much less for anything that requires more strength.


FOOTNOTES:

F4 Nat. Hist. l. 14. c. 1.

Ezekiel 15:3 In-Context

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
2 Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree? What is the branch among the trees of the forest?
3 Shall wood be taken from it to do a work? Will men take a peg from it to hang any vessel thereon?
4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devours both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work; how much less afterward shall it be meet for any work when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned?
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