Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 1. Why boastest thou thyself ] It is thought that Doeg boasted of his loyalty to Saul in making the above discovery; but the information was aggravated by circumstances of falsehood that tended greatly to inflame and irritate the mind of Saul. Exaggeration and lying are common to all informers.
O mighty man? ] This character scarcely comports with Doeg, who was only chief of the herdsmen of Saul, 1 Samuel xxi. 7; but I grant this is not decisive evidence that the Psalm may not have Doeg in view, for the chief herdsman may have been a man of credit and authority.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-5 - Those that glory in sin, glory in their shame. The patience an forbearance of God are abused by sinners, to the hardening of their hearts in their wicked ways. But the enemies in vain boast in their mischief, while we have God's mercy to trust in. It will not save u from the guilt of lying, to be able to say, there was some truth i what we said, if we make it appear otherwise than it was. The mor there is of craft and contrivance in any wickedness, the more there is of Satan in it. When good men die, they are transplanted from the lan of the living on earth, to heaven, the garden of the Lord, where the shall take root for ever; but when wicked men die, they are rooted out to perish for ever. The believer sees that God will destroy those wh make not him their strength.
Original Hebrew למנצח5329 משׂכיל4905 לדוד׃1732 בבוא935 דואג1673 האדמי130 ויגד5046 לשׁאול7586 ויאמר559 לו בא935 דוד1732 אל413 בית1004 אחימלך׃288 מה4100 תתהלל1984 ברעה7451 הגבור1368 חסד2617 אל410 כל3605 היום׃3117
