14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. …
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. …
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)The instances here given of the miserable condition of the wicked man in this world are expressed with great fulness and fluency of language, and the same thing returned to again and repeated in other words. Let us therefore reduce the particulars to their proper heads, and observe, I. What his wickedness is for which he is punished. 1. The lusts of the flesh, here called the sins of his youth (Jo…
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