Deutéronome 28:54

54 L'homme d'entre vous le plus délicat et le plus habitué à la mollesse aura un oeil sans pitié pour son frère, pour la femme qui repose sur son sein, pour ceux de ses enfants qu'il a épargnés;

Deutéronome 28:54 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 28:54

[So that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very
delicate
Not only the rustic that has been brought up meanly, and used to hard living; but one that has been bred very tenderly, and lived in a delicate manner, like the rich man in ( Luke 16:19 ) ; that fared sumptuously every day:

his eye shall be evil towards his brother, and towards the wife of his
bosom, and towards the remnant of his children which he shall leave;
that is, he shall begrudge his brother, who is so nearly related to him, the least bit of food; yea, his wife, he dearly loved, and is one flesh with him, his other self, and even his children, which are parts of himself, such of them as were left not eaten by him; or his eye should be evil upon then, he should look with an evil eye on them, determining within himself to kill and eat them next. Though the particular instance in which his eye would be evil to them follows, yet no doubt there are other instances in which his eye would be evil towards them, as there were at the siege of Jerusalem, and have been since. Josephus

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 says,

``that in every house where there was any appearance of food (or anything that looked like it, that had the shadow of it) there was a battle; and the dearest friends fought with one another, snatching away from each other, the miserable supports of life;''

as the husband from his wife and children, and the wife from her husband and children; see more in ( Deuteronomy 28:56 ) ; and, in later times, we told by the Jewish historian ^F3, that wrote an account of their sufferings and distresses since their dispersion, that at Fez the Jews sold their children for slaves for bread.

F2 De Bello Jud. l. 6. c. 3. sect. 3.
F3 Shebet Judah, sive Hist. Jud. p. 326.

Deutéronome 28:54 In-Context

52 Elle t'assiégera dans toutes tes portes, jusqu'à ce que tes murailles tombent, ces hautes et fortes murailles sur lesquelles tu auras placé ta confiance dans toute l'étendue de ton pays; elle t'assiégera dans toutes tes portes, dans tout le pays que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, te donne.

53 Au milieu de l'angoisse et de la détresse où te réduira ton ennemi, tu mangeras le fruit de tes entrailles, la chair de tes fils et de tes filles que l'Eternel, ton Dieu, t'aura donnés.

54 L'homme d'entre vous le plus délicat et le plus habitué à la mollesse aura un oeil sans pitié pour son frère, pour la femme qui repose sur son sein, pour ceux de ses enfants qu'il a épargnés;

55 il ne donnera à aucun d'eux de la chair de ses enfants dont il fait sa nourriture, parce qu'il ne lui reste plus rien au milieu de l'angoisse et de la détresse où te réduira ton ennemi dans toutes tes portes.

56 La femme d'entre vous la plus délicate et la plus habituée à la mollesse, qui par mollesse et par délicatesse n'essayait pas de poser à terre la plante de son pied, aura un oeil sans pitié pour le mari qui repose sur son sein, pour son fils et pour sa fille;