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5They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued{H8792)} like other men.
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Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? …
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
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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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