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EXPOSITION.
"_His ways are always grievous_." To himself they are
hard. Men go a rough road when they go to hell. God has hedged up
the way of sin: O what folly to leap these hedges and fall among
the thorns! To others, also, his ways cause much sorrow and
vexation; but what cares he? He sits like the idol god upon his
monstrous car, utterly regardless of the crowds who are crushed
as he rolls along. "_Thy judgments are far above out of his
sight_:" he looks high, but not high enough. As God is forgotten,
so are his judgments. He is not able to comprehend the things of
God; a swine may sooner look through a telescope at the stars
than this man study the word of God to understand the
righteousness of the Lord. "As for all his enemies, he puffeth at
them." He defies and domineers; and when men resist his injurious
behaviour, he sneers at them, and threatens to annihilate them
with a puff. In most languages there is a word of contempt
borrowed from the action of puffing with the lips, and in English
we should express the idea by saying, "He cries 'Pooh! Pooh!' at
his enemies." Ah! there is one enemy who will not thus be puffed
at. Death will puff at the candle of his life and blow it out,
and the wicked boaster will find it grim work to brag in the
tomb.
EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS.
Verse 5.--"_Grievous_," or troublesome; that is, all his
endeavours and actions aim at nothing but at hurting others.
"_Are far above_," for he is altogether carnal, he hath not any
disposition nor correspondence with the justice of thy law, which
is altogether spiritual; and therefore cannot lively represent
unto himself thy judgments, and the issue of the wicked according
to the said law. #Ro 7:14; 1Co 2:14|. "_He puffeth_;" he doth
most arrogantly despise them, and is confident he can overthrow
them with a puff.--^John Diodati.
Verse 5.--"_Thy judgments are far above out of his
sight_." Because God does not immediately visit every sin with
punishment, ungodly men do not see that in due time he judges all
the earth. Human tribunals must of necessity, by promptness and
publicity, commend themselves to the common judgment, but the
Lord's modes of dealing with sin are sublimer and apparently more
tardy, hence the bat's eyes of godless men cannot see them, and
the grovelling wits of men cannot comprehend them. If God sat in
the gate of every village and held his court there, even fools
might discern his righteousness, but they are not capable of
perceiving that for a matter to be settled in the highest court,
even in heaven itself, is a far more solemn matter. Let believers
take heed lest they fall in a degree into the same error, and
begin to criticise the actions of The Great Supreme, when they
are too elevated for human reason to comprehend them.--^C. H. S.
Verse 5.--"_The judgments of God are far above out of his
sight_." Out of his sight, as an eagle at her highest towering so
lessons herself to view, that he sees not the talons, nor fears
the grip. Thus man presumes till he hath sinned, and then
despairs as fast afterwards. At first, "Tush, doth God see it?"
At last, "Alas! will God forgive it?" But if a man will not know
his sins, his sins will know him; the eyes which presumption
shuts, commonly despair opens.--^Thomas Adams.
Verse 5.--"_As for all his enemies, he puffeth at them_."
David describeth a _proud_ man, _puffing at his enemies_: he is
puffed up and swelled with high conceits of himself, as if he had
some great matter in him, and he puffs at others as if he could
do some great matter against them, forgetting that himself is
but, as to his being in this world, a puff of wind which passeth
away.--^Joseph Caryl.
Verse 5.--"_As for all his enemies he puffeth at them_;"
literally, "_He whistles at them_." He is given over to the
dominion of gloomy indifference, and he cares as little for
others as for himself, whosoever may be imagined by him to be an
enemy he cares not. Contempt and ridicule are his only weapons;
and he has forgotten how to use others of a more sacred
character. His mental habits are marked by scorn; and he treats
with contempt the judgments, opinions, and practices of the
wisest of men.--^John Morison.
HINTS TO PREACHERS.
Verse 5.--"_Thy judgments are far above out of his
sight_." Moral inability of men to appreciate the character and
acts of God.