18Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind, but shalt fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.
I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-26)When the law was written, to be seen and read by all men , the sanctions of it were to be published, which, to complete the solemnity of their covenanting with God, they were deliberately to declare their approbation of. This they were before directed to do ( Deut. 11:29 , 30 ), and therefore the appointment here begins somewhat abruptly, Deut. 27:12. There were, it seems, in Canaan, that part of…
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