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8Understand{H8798)}, ye brutish{H8802)} among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise{H8686)}?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)In these verses we have, I. A solemn appeal to God against the cruel oppressors of his people, Ps. 94:1 , 2 . This speaks terror enough to them, that they have the prayers of God’s people against them, who cry day and night to him to avenge them of their adversaries; and shall he not avenge them speedily? Luke 18:3 , 7 . Observe here, 1. The titles they give to God for the encouraging of their fai…
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