Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 7. Gird up thy loins ] See chap. xxxviii. 1-3. Some think that this and the preceding verse have been repeated here from chap. xxxviii. 1-3, and that several of the words there, here, and chap. xlii. 3, have been repeated, in after times, to connect some false gatherings of the sheets of parchment, on which the end of this poem was originally written. See on ver. 1, and at the end of the chapter.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-14 - Those who profit by what they have heard from God, shall hear more from him. And those who are truly convinced of sin, yet need to be mor thoroughly convinced and more humbled. No doubt God, and he only, ha power to humble and bring down proud men; he has wisdom to know when and how to do it, and it is not for us to teach him how to govern the world. Our own hands cannot save us by recommending us to God's grace much less rescuing us from his justice; and therefore into his hand we must commit ourselves. The renewal of a believer proceeds in the sam way of conviction, humbling, and watchfulness against remaining sin, a his first conversion. When convinced of many evils in our conduct, we still need convincing of many more.
Original Hebrew אזר247 נא4994 כגבר1397 חלציך2504 אשׁאלך7592 והודיעני׃3045
