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21Thus my heart was grieved{H8691)}, and I was pricked{H8709)} in my reins.
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Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-28)Behold Samson’s riddle again unriddled, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong sweetness ; for we have here an account of the good improvement which the psalmist made of that sore temptation with which he had been assaulted and by which he was almost overcome. He that stumbles and does not fall, by recovering himself takes so much the longer steps forward. It was so with the psalm…
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