1 Wickedness often goes unpunished
17 There is a secret judgment for the wicked

seeing Ps 31:15 Ec 3:17 8:6,7 9:11,12 Isa 60:22 Da 2:21 Lu 21:22-24 Ac 1:7 17:26 1Th 5:1 1Ti 4:1 6:15 2Pe 2:3 3:7,8

they that know Ps 9:10 36:10 Joh 17:3

not see Ge 7:4 18:17,20,21 Ps 73:16-19 Jer 12:1-3 Mt 24:38 Ro 2:5

2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

landmarks De 19:14 27:17 Pr 22:28 23:10 Ho 5:10

violently 1:15,17 5:5

feed thereof. or, feed them

3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

drive 22:6-9 31:16,17 De 24:6,10-13,17-21 1Sa 12:3

4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

turn 14 31:16 Ps 109:16 Pr 22:16 30:14 Isa 10:2 Eze 18:12,18 22:29 Am 2:7 8:4-6 Mic 2:1,2

hide Pr 28:12,28 Jas 5:4-6

5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

wild asses 39:5-7 Jer 2:24 Ho 8:9

rising 14 Pr 4:16 Ho 7:6 Mic 2:1 Zep 3:3 Joh 18:28 Ac 23:12

the wilderness 5:5 12:6 Ge 16:12 27:40

6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.

They reap De 28:33,51 Jud 6:3-6 Mic 6:15

corn. Heb. mingled corn, or, dredge. they gather, etc. Heb. the wicked gather the vintage

7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

the naked 10 22:6 31:19,20 Ex 22:26,27 De 24:11-13 Isa 58:7 Ac 9:31

no covering Ge 31:40 Pr 31:21 *marg:

8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

wet So 5:2

embrace La 4:5 Heb 11:38

9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.

2Ki 4:1 Ne 5:5

10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

they take away De 24:19 Am 2:7,8 5:11,12

11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

De 25:4 Jer 22:13 Jas 5:4

12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

groan Ex 1:13,14 2:23,24 22:27 Jud 10:16 Ps 12:5 Ec 4:1 Isa 52:5

wounded Ps 69:26 109:22

yet God Ps 50:21 Ec 8:11,12 Mal 2:17 3:15 Ro 2:4,5 2Pe 3:15

13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

rebel Lu 12:47,48 Joh 3:19,20 9:39-41 15:22-24 Ro 1:32 2:17-24 Jas 4:17

they know Pr 4:19 Joh 12:35,40 Ro 3:11-17 2Th 2:10-12

nor abide 23:11,12 Joh 8:31,44 15:6 2Pe 2:20-22 1Jo 2:19 Jude 1:6

14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

murderer 2Sa 11:14-17 Ps 10:8-10 Mic 2:1,2 Eph 5:7-11

in the night Lu 12:39 1Th 5:2 Re 3:3

15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

eye Ex 20:14 2Sa 11:4-13 12:12 Ps 50:18 Pr 6:32-35 7:9,10

No eye 22:13,14 Ps 10:11 73:11 94:7 Eze 8:12 9:9

disguiseth his face. Heb. setteth his face in secret (Or, 'putteth a covering on his face;' probably the hood of the burnoose, or cloak, which the Arabs sometimes throw over their other garments.) Ge 38:14,15

16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

in the dark Ex 22:2,3 Eze 12:5-7,12 Mt 24:43

they know 13 38:12,13 Joh 3:20 Eph 5:11-13

17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

in the terrors. See on 3:5 Ps 73:18,19 Jer 2:26 2Co 5:10,11 Re 6:16,17

18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

swift Ps 58:7 73:18-20 Isa 23:10

their portion De 28:16-20 Ps 69:22 Pr 3:33 Mal 2:2

19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

Drought 6:15-17

consume. Heb. violently take. so doth 21:23,32-34 Ps 49:14 58:8,9 68:2 Pr 14:32 Ec 9:4-6 Lu 12:20 16:22

20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

the worm 17:14 19:26

he shall be Pr 10:7 Ec 8:10 Isa 26:14

wickedness 14:7-10 18:16,17 Da 4:14 Mt 3:10

21 He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.

evil 1Sa 1:6,7

doeth not 3 29:13 31:16-18

22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

draweth Es 3:8-10 Da 6:4-9 Joh 19:12-16 Re 16:13,14 17:2

no man is sure of life. or, he trusteth not his own life

23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

it be given Ps 73:3-12 Jer 12:1-3

whereon Ec 8:11 Isa 10:8-11 56:12 Lu 12:16-20,45 1Th 5:3

yet his eyes Ps 10:13,14 11:4,5 Pr 5:21 15:3 25:21-23 Ec 5:8 Am 8:7 9:2 Hab 1:13 Re 2:23

24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

are exalted 20:5 Ps 37:10,35,36 73:19 92:7 Jas 1:11 5:1-3

gone. Heb. not 8:22 *marg:

taken out. Heb. closed up. cut off Isa 17:5,6 Re 14:14-20

25 And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

who will make 9:24 11:2,3 15:2