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5A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
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The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. …
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The psalmist begins with a call to us to praise God, but immediately applies himself to praise the people of God; for whatever glory is acknowledged to be on them it comes from God, and must return to him; as he is their praise, so they are his. We have reason to praise the Lord that there are a people in the world who fear him and serve him, and that they are a happy people, both which are owing…
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