Psalms 105:18

“Whose feet they hurt with fetters, etc.] For it seems Joseph was not only cast into prison, upon the calumny of his mistress; but had fetters put upon him, and his feet were made fast with them; and these were so close and heavy, as to pinch and gall and hurt him; which, though not mentioned in his history, was undoubtedly true; (see <013920>Genesis 39:20). He was laid in iron: or “the iron” (or, as the Targum, “the iron chain”) “went into his Soul” f1489; his body; it ate into him, and gave him great pain: or rather, as it is in the king’s Bible, “his soul went into the iron chain”; there being, as Aben Ezra observes, an ellipsis of the particle b, and which is supplied by Symmachus, and so…”

“Whose feet they hurt with fetters - In Genesis 40:3; it is said of Joseph that he was “bound” in prison. It is not improbable that his “feet” were bound, as this is the usual way of confining prisoners. He was laid in iron - In the prison. The margin is, “his soul came into iron.” The version in the Prayer-Book of the Episcopal Church is, the iron entered into his soul. This is a more striking and beautiful rendering, though it may be doubted whether the Hebrew will permit it. DeWette renders it, “In iron lay his body.” return to 'Top of Page'”

“Whose: Gen 39:20, Gen 40:15; Act 16:24 he was laid in iron: Heb. his soul came into iron, Psa 107:10 Psalms 105:19”