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For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Tongue. The matter is very delicate and important. James 3:2. Proverbs 18:21. Isaiah 32:17. Sirach 22:33 and 28:28.—Me, and was treating me with injustice and calumny. Bible.—Chilo, the sage, said: “I know how to bear ill treatment,” (Laert. 1.) and this is a proof of “the greatest wisdom and virtue.” Bible.—Ουτος κρατιστος. Menand. Calmet.—Weak men seek revenge; but the wise resolve to govern their tongues, and do not stand up in their own just defence, though they be, therefore, more persecuted. Worthington.
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