An evil disease - Margin, “a thing of Belial.” The Hebrew is literally “a word of Belial.” This has been very variously understood and inter…

An evil disease. —In the margin: thing of Belial. (For “Belial,” see Deuteronomy 13:13.) The expression may mean, as in t…

Many a child of God has had his character whispered down by slanderers; many a man has had a hard time because of the evil speaking of men of the w…

An evil deed of Belial cleaved fast to him. From this verse it appears that they had conspired in this way for his destruction, because th…

An evil disease, [say they], cleaves fast to him
Not any bodily one, of which they might hope he would die; much les…

We complain, and justly, of the lack of sincerity, and that there is scarcely any true friendship to be found among men; but the former days were n…

1. In the previous psalm, the psalmist showed his trust in God. Here, he asks for a sustaining mercy from God.

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