Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 3. Thou lovest evil ] This was a finished character. Let us note the particulars: 1. He boasted in the power to do evil. 2. His tongue devised, studied, planned, and spoke mischiefs. 3. He was a deceitful worker. 4. He loved evil and not good. 5. He loved lying; his delight was in falsity. 6.
Every word that tended to the destruction of others he loved. 7. His tongue was deceitful; he pretended friendship while his heart was full of enmity, ver. 1-4. Now behold the punishment: -
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.
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