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11And they say{H8804)}, How doth God know{H8804)}? and is there knowledge in the most High?
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And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? …
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)This psalm begins somewhat abruptly: Yet God is good to Israel (so the margin reads it); he had been thinking of the prosperity of the wicked; while he was thus musing the fire burned, and at last he spoke by way of check to himself for what he had been thinking of. “However it be, yet God is good.” Though wicked people receive many of the gifts of his providential bounty, yet we must own that he…
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