Job 21:7

Wherefore.

12:6; Ps 17:10; 73:3-12; Jer 12:1-3; Hab 1:15,16

mighty.

Ps 37:35; Da 4:17; Re 13:2-7; 17:2-4

Psalms 37:1

1 David persuades to patience and confidence in God, by the different estate of the godly and the wicked.

(Title.)This is the third alphabetical Psalm. It seems to have been intended as an instructive and consoling ode for the captives in Babylon, who might feel themselves severely tempted when they saw those idolaters in prosperity, and themselves in adversity.

Fret.

7; 1Sa 1:6-8; Pr 19:3; 24:1,19

neither.

73:3; Pr 3:31; 23:17; Ga 5:21; Jas 4:5,6

Psalms 37:7

Rest in. Heb. Be silent to.

62:1; Jos 10:12; Jon 1:11; *margins

wait.

27:14; 40:1; Pr 20:22; Isa 8:17; 30:15; La 3:25,26; Hab 2:3; Ga 6:9

Heb 10:36,37; Jas 5:7-11

fret.

50:8; 73:3-14; Jer 12:1

the man.

Job 21:7-34; Ec 5:8; Isa 10:13,14; Da 11:36; Re 13:3-10

Proverbs 3:31

Envy.

23:17; 24:1,19,20; Ps 37:1,7-9; 73:3; Ga 5:21

the oppressor. Heb. a man of violence.

Ec 5:8

choose.

1:15-18; 2:12-15; 12:12; 22:22-25

Proverbs 24:1

19; 3:31; 23:17; Ps 37:1,7; 73:3; Ga 5:19-21; Jas 4:5,6

neither.

1:11-15; 13:20; Ge 13:10-13; 19:1-11; Ps 26:9

Jeremiah 12:1

1 Jeremiah, complaining of the wicked's prosperity, by faith sees their ruin.

5 God admonishes him of his brethren's treachery against him;

7 and laments his heritage.

14 He promises to the penitent return from captivity.

Righteous.

11:20; Ge 18:25; De 32:4; Ps 51:4; 119:75,137; 145:17; Da 9:7

Hab 1:13-17; Zep 3:5; Ro 3:5,6

talk. or, reason the case.

Job 13:3; Isa 41:21

Wherefore doth.

5:28; Job 12:6; 21:7-15; Ps 37:1,35; 73:3-28; 92:7; 94:3,4; Pr 1:32

Hab 1:4; Mal 3:15

deal.

6; 5:11; Isa 48:8; Ho 6:7

James 4:5

the scripture.

Joh 7:42; 10:35; 19:37; Ro 9:17; Ga 3:8

The spirit.

Ge 4:5,6; 6:5; 8:21; 26:14; 30:1; 37:11; Nu 11:29; Ps 37:1; 106:16

Pr 21:10; Ec 4:4; Isa 11:13; Ac 7:9; Ro 1:29; Tit 3:3

to envy. or, enviously.
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