10:14 and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said, “My father imposed heavy demands on you;17 I will make them even heavier.18 My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.”19
tc The Hebrew text reads, “I will make heavy your yoke,” but many medieval Hebrew mss and other ancient textual witnesses have, “my father made heavy your yoke.”
tnHeb “My father punished you with whips, but I [will punish you] with scorpions.” “Scorpions” might allude to some type of torture, but more likely it refers to a type of whip that inflicts an especially biting, painful wound.