Deuteronomy 32:15

The line (And) Jacob ate and was full is added by Sam. to the previous v., but by the LXX to this one to which it is more suitable; cp. Deuteronomy 31:20; Nehemiah 9:25.

Jeshurun Deuteronomy 33:5; Deuteronomy 33:26; Isaiah 44:2, a name for the people (cp. Jashar, Joshua 10:13; 2 Samuel 1:18) with a play upon the name Israel; and, as it means honestor upright, it is used here sarcastically of so delinquent and perverse a race.

Thou wast waxen fat… plump … sleek Note the change to the 2nd pers. and the fact that if the additional line from the Sam. and LXX be prefixed to the v. this line forms an odd one among its couplets; which may be taken as an argument against either its originality or that of the line added by the LXX. Sleek, perhaps we should read the same vb. as in Jeremiah 5:28 (Grätz); the Heb. vb. here means thou art gorged.

God Heb. "Eloah, -probably only a secondary form obtained inferentially from -Elohîm," only in late writings, chiefly poetry.

lightly esteemed Rather held, or treated, as a fool, Micah 7:6. How often in their superstition men act as if God could be tricked, and in their immorality as if He were senseless. Yet God is sensitive, as the next v. declares, and as Isaiah says is wise. On Rocksee Deuteronomy 32:4.