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78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
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Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 78-79)Here David shows, I. How little he valued the will—will of sinners. There were those that dealt perversely with him, that were peevish and ill-conditioned towards him, that sought advantages against him, and misconstrued all he said and did. Even those that deal most fairly may meet with those that deal perversely. But David regarded it not, for, 1. He knew it was without cause , and that for his…
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