To avoid this incongruity, Gesenius and Ewald are obliged to give נפל, both here and in ver. 5:18, not only the precarious sense of bearing and of being born, but the arbitrary and specific one of bearing again and being born again. Some of the older writers make תַּפִּיל the second person (which agrees well with the previous address to God) and understand the words to mean thou wilt came the giants to fall to the earth. But the combination of דפאים with מתים in ver. 14, and the repetition of the