Hos 9:12 | JFB | e4.org | 12. Even though they should rear their children, yet will I bereave them (the Ephraimites) of them ( ). woe . . . to them when I depart —Yet the ungodly in their madness desire God to depart from them ( ). At last they know to their cost how awful it is when God has departed ( ; compare ).

‏ Hosea 9:12

12. Even though they should rear their children, yet will I bereave them (the Ephraimites) of them (Job 27:14).

woe . . . to them when I depart—Yet the ungodly in their madness desire God to depart from them (Job 21:14; 22:17; Mt 8:34). At last they know to their cost how awful it is when God has departed (De 31:17; 1Sa 28:15, 16; compare Ho 9:11; 1Sa 4:21).