The Mean Man
J. H. Jowett, M. A. Isaiah 2:9 And the mean man bows down, and the great man humbles himself: therefore forgive them not. "Mean" there does not mean selfish or stingy, but the man between two extremes, the mean, average, ordinary man. The mean man and the great man are both bowing — what are they bowing to? Something beneath them; they have lost the sense of their dignity, and they have forgotten that they are kings, and now they are bowing down to things that they ought to control. (J. H. Jowett, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. WEB: Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don't forgive them.