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John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 10:5
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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His ways are always grievous, etc.] To God and to his people; or, “his ways cause terror” f175, so Aben Ezra; make men fear; as antichrist has made the whole world tremble at him, (<661304>Revelation 13:4); or, “his ways are defiled”, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin render it; for to him is nothing pure, his mind and conscience being defiled, (<560115>Titus 1:15); or, “his ways always remain” f176; they are always the same, there is no change in them for the better: or they “prosper” f177 as Jarchi interprets it; and this is sometimes stumbling to the saints, (<241201>Jeremiah 12:1 <197302>Psalm 73:2,3); thy judgments [are] far above, out of his sight: meaning either the laws, statutes, and commandments of God, which are not taken notice of by him; but his own decrees or orders are set in the room of them; or the examples of punishment inflicted on wicked men, as on the old world, on Sodom and Gomorrah, the Egyptians, and other nations; these are not regarded, when they should be a terror to him; [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them; who are the poor saints, and are looked upon by antichrist as feeble creatures, and all their efforts against him and his kingdom are treated with contempt: he blows upon them, and suggests that he can cause them to fall with the breath of his mouth, or strike them down with a straw or a feather; (see <191206>Psalm 12:6).
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