Deuteronomy 32:31

29 ^aOh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would consider their ^blatter end!

30 How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock ^ahad sold them,
And the Lord had surrendered them?

31 For their rock is not like our Rock,
^aEven our enemies themselves being judges.

32 For ^atheir vine is of the vine of Sodom
And of the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of gall,
Their clusters are bitter.

33 Their wine is ^athe poison of serpents,
And the cruel ^bvenom of cobras.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Deuteronomy 32:31

For their rock - The gods and pretended protectors of the Romans.

Is not as our Rock - Have neither power nor influence like our God.

Our enemies themselves being judges - For they often acknowledged the irresistible power of that God who fought for Israel. See Exodus 14:25; Numbers 23:8-12, Numbers 23:19-21; I Samuel 4:8.

There is a passage in Virgil, Eclog. iv., ver. 58, very similar to this saying of Moses: -

Pan Deus Arcadia mecum si judice certet,

Pan etiam Arcadia dicat se judice victum .

"Should the god Pan contend with me," (in singing

the praises of the future hero, the deliverer,

prophesied of in the Sibylline books), "were even

Arcadia judge, Pan would acknowledge himself to be

vanquished, Arcadia herself being judge."

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