Verse 2
2. As the bird Here meaning any small bird of passage which frequently removes from place to place.
By wandering Literally, removing.
Swallow Generally so construed, though sometimes rendered dove or wild pigeon.
So the curse Affliction of any character.
Causeless shall not come Not without design, so far as it is of God’s appointment. We take the import of the proverb to be, that as the wanderings of the “bird” or the flying of “the swallow” in their removals from place to place have an object namely, the supplying of their bodily needs and so far are an instinct from God, so afflictions shall be designed for the benefit of those who are exercised thereby. “As even birds of the air obey a law of their nature in their seemingly irregular wanderings, so the evils that befall men are not fortuitous, but presuppose a reason and a cause.”
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