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22So foolish was I, and ignorant{H8799)}: I was as a beast before thee.
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I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
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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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