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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. They have to drink of the bitter cup again and again; it seems to them to be always full; and the wicked have their full cup, — filled, as it seems, with the juice from the very finest fruit.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? They get to doubt the personality of God. If they will not precisely say that there is no God, yet they go as near to it as they can; they come to what is about the same thing. They have a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. And they say “How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most high?” They pretend that God is, as it were, only like King Log, taking no account of what is done by the sons of men. “He does not notice our feastings, or listen to our blasphemies;” so they say.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? God’s sorrowing children have to drink of the bitter cup, while these proud ones are eating of the fat of the land.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they say, how doth God know?.... Owning there is a God, but questioning his knowledge; for the words are not an inquiry about the way and manner of his knowing things; which is not by the senses, as hearing and seeing; eyes and ears are improperly ascribed to him; nor in a discursive way, by reasoning, and inferring one thing from another; for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? They admit that there is a God, but they ask, “What does he know, and how does he know?”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Behold, these are the ungodly,.... Who say and do as before declared; such as these must be without the knowledge of God, the fear, love, and worship of him: who prosper in the world; in worldly and temporal things, in their bodies and outward estates, but not in their souls and spiritual things: "in this world", as the Targum is; all their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. It was one of his greatest sorrows that, the more holy he was, the more troubled he seemed to be; and the more closely he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. And this is what the good man said,
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. And yet why do we wonder at this? The bullock that is intended to be killed is the first to be fatted, and he that is doomed to destruction will often be allowed to prosper. Would you not let them have as much pleasure as they can have in this life, for they will...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. When Asaph got into this unbelieving state of mind, it did look as if all his care of his character and all his desire to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Verily, I have cleansed my heart in vain,.... Which supposes that his heart had been unclean, as every man's is, and which appears by what is in it, and by what comes out of it; that it was now cleansed, not in an absolute and legal sense, as if it was wholly free from sin, for this no man can say; but in an evangelical sense, being purified by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. “Is this all I am to get by my righteousness? Is this the reward of following after God, to be whipped as soon as I wake, and to be sent to bed sore with grief?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. “Surely,” said he “my holy life, my desire to be right with God and man, is a good-for-nothing thing. I do not prosper; I do not increase in riches, but it is the very reverse with me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For all the day long have I been plagued,.... "Smitten or scourged" (p), as in Psalms 73:5, that is, afflicted of God; which is no ways inconsistent with his love, nor with his covenant, nor with an interest in him, as a covenant God and Father; see Psalms 89:29, and chastened every morning; not in wrath, but in love, and for good; not with the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. Cannot you imagine a son of very wise parents, and very loving parents, saying, “Why, look at that boy in the street! He has no father to flog him, no mother to scold him, he can do just as he likes; but, as for me, if I do a little wrong, I am whipped for it?” Ah, my lad! the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If I say, I will speak thus,.... Either as the wicked do, Psalms 73:8 or rather as he had thought in his own mind, Psalms 73:13, wherefore he kept it all to himself, and did not make known to others the reasonings of his mind, and the temptations he laboured under: behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children; of whom care should...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. You know that some people have made up a kind of proverb like this, “If you think it, you may as well speak it;” but it is not so. Bad thoughts should never be spoken. If a man has a bottle of whisky in his house, or in his pocket, that is bad enough; but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I say, I will speak thus; behold I should offend against the generation of thy children. So he did not say what he thought. Some have said, “If you think so, you may as well say so.” But not so. You might as well say if you have a match, you may as well burn your house down. Bad thought is bad to yourself, but it ends there; turn it into words...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. Do not always speak what you think. “But if you think it, you may as well say it,” says one. Oh, no! There may be an evil spirit in yonder bottle, but nobody will get drunk upon it if you keep the cork in; so there may be evil thoughts in your hearts, but...