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5They know{H8804)} not, neither will they understand{H8799)}; they walk{H8691)} on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course{H8735)}.
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If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We have here, I. God’s supreme presidency and power in all councils and courts asserted and laid down, as a great truth necessary to be believed both by princes and subjects (Ps. 82:1): God stands , as chief director, in the congregation of the mighty , the mighty One, in coetu fortis—in the councils of the prince , the supreme magistrate, and he judges among the gods, the inferior magistrates; bo…
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