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14From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
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Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)We may observe, in these verses, I. What David prays for. Being compassed about with enemies that sought his life, he prays to God to preserve him safely through all their attempts against him, to the crown to which he was anointed. This prayer is both a prediction of the preservation of Christ through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation, to the glories and joys of his exalted st…
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