Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 4. Men. Houb. “My mouth shall not pass to the pretexts of Adam.” I will not seek for excuses in sin. Bible.—“My mouth utters not vows to the vain works of men.” Prin. disc.—But these versions are singular. Bert.—Hard. Hebrew “way of the robber.” Purits, or prits, (Saint Jerome Bible.) means also “fracture.” Bert.—David was ordered by God to retire into the wilderness, and to caves, where he was obliged to live like robbers, ( Calmet.) and was branded ( Calmet.) with the title of a fugitive slave by Nabal, 1 Kennicott. 25:10. Bible.—Yet the actions of David were very different from theirs. Bert.—He did not speak about the works of men, in power to condemn Saul, or any other, being averse to all detraction, and prescribing to himself the strictest laws, ( Calmet.) which God had ever promulgated. Prot. “I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. (4) Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips, I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.” The division of the verses is arbitrary. Bible.—David kept the narrow path of virtue. Worthington.