Fools, because of their transgression – Wicked people are considered fools because they are transgressors. Compare to Psal…

The sick.

Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw ne…

Fools are afflicted on account of the way of their transgression. He now comes to another kind of chastisement. For as he observed above t…

Fools, because of their transgression
Or, "because of the way" ^F8 "of it"; their sinful course of life; f…

If we knew no sin, we should know no sickness. Sinners are fools. They hurt their bodily health by intemperance, and endanger their lives by indulg…