Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge, etc.] mg. sitteth on eggs which she hath not laid. We need not take the statement to indicate more than a popular belief of that day, of which the prophet availed himself by way of an illustration. (Woods, however [see Woods and Powell, The Hebrew Prophets, II. 104 f., quoted by Pe.], maintains that the partridge does act in accordance with both text and mg.) "The young birds soon forsake their false mother, and so does wealth its unjust possessor. Or perhaps the words should be rendered, that heapeth together(eggs), but doth not bring forth(young) with allusion to the large number of eggs laid by the partridge, which are eagerly sought for by the Arabs as food, so that the bird often hatches no young." Dr. who quotes Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, pp. 224 f.

they shall leave him mg. (and A.V.), better, he shall leave them.

a fool Heb. nâbhâl. "The fault of the nâbhâlwas not weakness of reason, but moral and religious insensibility, an invincible lack of sense, or perception, for the claims of either God or man." Dr. Parallel Psalter, p. 457. See Isaiah 32:5 f. and cp. for an example 1 Samuel 25:25.