Psalms 12:4
3, 4. Boasting (Da 7:25) is, like flattery, a species of lying.
lips, and . . . tongue—for persons.Ecclesiastes 8:8
8. spirit—"breath of life" (Ec 3:19), as the words following require. Not "wind," as WEISS thinks (Pr 30:4). This verse naturally follows the subject of "times" and "judgment" (Ec 8:6, 7).
discharge—alluding to the liability to military service of all above twenty years old (Nu 1:3), yet many were exempted (De 20:5-8). But in that war (death) there is no exemption. those . . . given to—literally, the master of it. Wickedness can get money for the sinner, but cannot deliver him from the death, temporal and eternal, which is its penalty (Isa 28:15, 18).Jeremiah 8:11
11. (Eze 13:10).
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