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8They are corrupt{H8686)}, and speak{H8762)} wickedly concerning oppression: they speak{H8762)} loftily.
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These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. …
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? …
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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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