What is the comparison to a mistake of the officer?
Rashi: It 1 is like a mistaken utterance of an officer. It cannot be retracted. So Hashem said; one cannot overturn it.
Ibn Ezra, Metzudas David: This refers to verse 4. A ruler's authority requires him to do matters opposite Emes. It appears like a mistake without knowledge. Metzudas David - really, it is not a mistake.
Rashbam: This evil is like an officer who told his slave to hang Ploni or do another evil to him, and the slave did so to one who did not sin, for he erred about his master's words.
Ri Kara: The officer should have commanded 'seat Ploni the Ashir in a high place, at the head of the invitees, and Ploni the fool, who has no heart, seat him among the lowly.' He erred, and commanded to seat the fool in a high place, and the Ashir among the lowly, for he did not recognize who is the fool and who is the Ashir (6).
Seforno: This explains verse 4, why the ruler gets angry at you without a proper reason. Sometimes it is as if the Ma'arachah errs.
Magihah (in Toras Chayim): The evil under the sun, like the coming verse explains.
What is the grammatical form of "she'Yotza"?
Ibn Ezra: The last letter of the root is Aleph. The last vowed is Kamatz, like verbs whose last letter is Hei, in feminine conjugation, like "v'Es Ma'amar Mordechai Esther Osah" (Esther 2:20); the masculine is "Yotzei" (Yehoshua 6:1), with a Tzeirei.
