6. crackling —answers to the loud merriment of fools. It is the very fire consuming them which produces the seeming merry noise ( :- ). Their light soon goes out in the black darkness. There is a paronomasia in the Hebrew, Sirim ("thorns"), Sir ("pot"). The wicked are often compared to "thorns" ( 2 Samuel 23:6 ; Nahum 1:10 ). Dried cow-dung was the common fuel in Palestine; its slowness in burning makes the quickness of a fire of thorns the more graphic, as an image of the sudden end of fools ( Nahum 1:10- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-7" class="com-number"
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