Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 8. As a snail which melteth ] The Chaldee reads the verse thus: "They shall melt away in their sins as water flows off; as the creeping snail that smears its track; as the untimely birth and the blind mole, which do not see the sun." The original word lwlb shablul, a snail, is either from lyb shebil, a path, because it leaves a shining path after it by emitting a portion of slime, and thus glaring the ground; and therefore might be emphatically called the pathmaker; or from by yashab to dwell, b be, in, lwl lul, a winding or spiral shell, which is well known to be its house, and which it always inhabits; for when it is not coiled up within this shell, it carries it with it wheresoever it goes. See Bochart. These figures need no farther explanation.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-11 - David prayed that the enemies of God's church and people might be disabled to do further mischief. We may, in faith, pray against the designs of the enemies of the church. He foretells their ruin. And wh knows the power of God's anger? The victories of the Just One, in his own person and that of his servants, over the enemies of man' salvation, produce a joy which springs not from revenge, but from view of the Divine mercy, justice, and truth, shown in the redemptio of the elect, the punishment of the ungodly, and the fulfilment of the promises. Whoever duly considers these things, will diligently seek the reward of righteousness, and adore the Providence which orders all thing aright in heaven and in earth _________________________________________________
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