My soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Countenance. Pronounce sentence, (Esther 1:19. Calmet.) if I have done wrong. I do not refuse punishment. Psalms 7:5. Bible.—The Greek and Lat. copies vary. Some read correctly with the Hebrew “Let thy eyes behold what is wrong.” Yet Saint Jerome (ep. ad Sun.) has “right,” with the Syr. and so forth Others more commonly read, “Let mine eyes behold justice.” Calmet.—Montanus, however, substitutes rectitudines for iniquitates, as Pagnin had rendered mesharim, and Prot. “the things that are equal.” Bible.—“Holy preachers are the eyes of Christ … let them see what is just … and fulfil the justice which they preach.” Saint Jerome—God sees all things, and will pass a just sentence. Worthington.