Psalms 63:8

Verse 8. The arrows of children are their wounds. That is, the wounds, stripes, or blows, they seek to inflict upon the just, are but like weak efforts of children’s arrows, which can do no execution; and their tongues, that is, their speeches against them, come to nothing. Challoner.—Or, children themselves have wounded these crafty politicians, and exposed their folly. Bible.—Hebrew is “very perplexed in the last three verses. Let us adhere to the Vulg. and Septuagint who generally read more correctly than the present Hebrew.” Calmet. Bert.—Yet S. Jerom gives a very good sense. Bible.—Wounds. God hath chosen the weak things of this world to confound the strong, ( Worthington.) and he hath taken the wise in their craftiness. Menochius.