_For a man taught me to keep cattle from my youth._
Parkhurst, in his Lexicon, remarks upon this passage, as being _strangely_
translated in our version; while Dr. Blayney agrees with him in the
translation. _For a man bought me, __(OR OBTAINED POSSESSION OF ME,)__
from my youth._ The Jew, while he acquiesces in the sense of הקנני (or
יננקה) signifying _to appropriate_, contends that אדם (or םדא) does not
mean merely _a man_, but a _husbandman_, or labourer, and renders it, _For
a husbandman I was appropriated from my youth._ But neither the sense nor
the grammatical construction thus appearing clear to my apprehension, as
the verb is not in the first, but the third person with the suffix י _me_,
after it; I propose to reconcile both by rendering the passage thus: _For
a husbandman bought or appropriated me from my youth._ But in fact the
difference is immaterial, as the sense, in whatever way expressed, is,
_For I was a farmer’s servant, and a bondsman from my youth._