clear. A man with a houseful of hefty young men will be no pushover in these circumstances. They will stand up to such adversaries. Perhaps the psalm refers to the semiformal gathering of the community court in the plaza inside the city gate (cf. Tg). But it may simply refer to that same public location as the place where they would confront such adversaries in public, without this being a legal or semiformal legal situation. They will do so with confidence, and people will be impressed by them;
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