small garden of vegetables.—11. According to the rain of heaven it drinketh water] i.e. the supply of water is regulated by the rain. It is true that Canaan is also “a land of streams of water, of springs and deeps, issuing forth in vale and hill” (8:7); but water from these sources would be far from sufficient for the general irrigation of the country; and the crops are essentially dependent for their proper growth upon the two annual periods of rain referred to in v. 14.—12. Careth for] lit. seeketh