“Excogitat justus de domo impii, ut detrahat impios a malo.”
“The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.”
“The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked and brings the wicked to ruin.”
“The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.”
“The righteous man considereth the house of the wicked, How the wicked are overthrown to their ruin.”
Evil. He tries every expedient to save him. — That. Septuagint, “he despises.” Symmachus, “throws down.”
This shows the folly of those that hope to enrich themselves by dishonest practices, by oppressing and over-reaching those with whom they deal, by false-witness-bearing, or by fraudulent contracts, of those that make no scruples of lying when there is any thing to be got by it. They may perhaps heap up treasures by these means, that which they make their treasure; but, 1. They will not meet with the satisfaction they expect. It is a vanity tossed to and fro; it will be disappointment and vexation of spirit to them; they will not have the comfort of it, nor can they put any confidence in it, but will be perpetually uneasy. It will be tossed to and fro by their own consciences, and by the censures of men; let them expect to be in a constant hurry. 2. They will meet with destruction they do not expect. While they are seeking wealth by such unlawful practices they are really seeking death; they lay themselves open to the envy and ill-will of men by the treasures they get, and to the wrath and curse of God, by the lying tongue wherewith they get them, which he will make to fall upon themselves and sink them to hell.