For I was envious at the foolish - The word “foolish” here refers to sinners. It may either refer to them as foolish, or as proud, …

Foolish. —Better, arrogant.

When I saw. —Perhaps the conjunction is wrongly supplied, and the word…

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wic…

For I envied the foolish. Here he declares the nature of the temptation with which he was beset. It consisted in this: when he saw the pre…

For I was envious at the foolish
The atheists, as in (Psalms 14:1), who deny the creation, as Arama; the…

The psalmist was strongly tempted to envy the prosperity of the wicked; a common temptation, which has tested the graces of many saints. But he lay…