But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
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Gill's Exposition
But if the owner thereof be with it,.... When it is hurt or dies; for in some cases the owner might go along with his beast, being borrowed or hired to do work with it; or, however, being upon the…
Barnes' Notes
It came for his hire - The sum paid for hiring was regarded as covering the risk of accident.
These laws are,
I. Concerning trusts, Exo 22:7-13. If a man deliver goods, suppose to a carrier to be conveyed, or to a warehouse-keeper to be preserved, or cattle to a farmer to be fed, upon a…
Cambridge Bible
it came for its hire and therefore, it is presumed, the owner was prepared to take the risk, so that compensation for injury is unnecessary. The sense expressed by the marg. is hardly likely: for if…