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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. Many of them keep up a hypocritical profession through a long life, and die in a stupefaction, so that conscience never awakens, and they pass out of the world loaded with guilt, and yet talk about being...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They are not in trouble, as other men,.... Either of body or of mind, as the saints are, who through many tribulations enter the kingdom; or are not in "labour" (h), do not labour for food and raiment, or get their bread by the sweat of their brow, as poor men do; nor are weary, so Arama: "neither are they plagued like other men"; smitten of God,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. They are not the children of God, and that is why they escape the rod of God. The rod is not for strangers, but for the children of the family. Yet the psalmist began to envy these people because, said he, “they are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
; Psa_73:8. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. They justify...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain, .] Which was the sin of the devils, and of our first parents, and of Sodom, and is the sin of antichrist and which, of all sins, is most hateful to God; this arises from, at least is increased by, outward prosperity. Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked; pride and fulness of bread went together in Sodom;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; They wear it gladly, and think it to be an ornament.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Violence covereth them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. They set their mouth against the heavens, — As though they would blow them down, as the wind blows the clouds that are full of rain.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. They do not seem to have the afflictions of God’s people, and certainly they are not plagued with soul-conflict such as Christians have, they seem to make themselves very merry at all times. Psa_73:6. Therefore pride accompanieth them about as a chain; They wear it as...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; As kings wear chains of gold, so is their pride to them. Psa_73:6. Violence covereth them as a garment, They are not ashamed of it. They get to be so bold in sin that they wear it as an outside cloak.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ver. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness,.... Or their face, the eyes being put for the whole face; so the Targum, "their face is changed, because of fatness;'' see Job 15:27, otherwise through fatness the eyes are almost enclosed: or "it goes forth out of the fatness of their eyes" (i); that is, either "pride", which shows itself in haughty looks...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. What big words they utter! How they boast! How they despise the poor! How they sneer at religion! It is dreadful to hear them; and for a child of God, who is conscious of doing right, and of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. Superfluities. They never have to ask where a meal will come from. They have more than they want.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They are corrupt,.... In themselves, in their principles, and in their practices, being shapen and conceived in sin, and born of the flesh; and are corrupters, or "corrupt" themselves, and their ways, and also others by their corrupt speech, evil communications, and bad examples: or "they consume away"; like smoke, or into it, as Psalms 37:20 or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. They set their mouth against the heavens, Such big mouths—such blasphemous words—have they, that they attack God himself. There is nothing too high for them to drag it down—nothing too pure for them to slander. “They set their mouth against the heavens.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They set their mouth against the heavens,.... Against God in heaven, see Daniel 4:26, against his being, saying, there is no God; against his perfections, thinking him to be such an one as themselves; against his purposes and decrees, replying against him, and charging him with insincerity, cruelty, and unrighteousness; and against his providence,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And their tongue walketh through the earth. Like the ravening lion of the pit, seeking characters that they may destroy or devour. There is no end to the mischief that such people can do. If they are not in trouble themselves, they make much trouble for other people; and while they set themselves on so high a pinnacle, they are mean enough to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. Leaving nobody alone, sparing no character, however pure.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They set their mouth against the heavens, As if this earth did not contain room enough for their malice, “They set their mouth against the heavens.” Psa_73:9. And their tongue walketh through the earth. Letting nobody alone, having a hard word for everybody except their own chosen coterie.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And their tongue walketh through the earth. Like the lion seeking its prey, they take long walks in their slander. Nobody is safe from them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore his people return hither,.... Either the true people of God, and so the Targum, the people of the Lord, and whom the psalmist owned for his people; for the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, read "my people"; who seeing the prosperity of the wicked, and feeling their own afflictions, return to the same way...