You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. Heart. Septuagint have read differently from the present. Bert.—Hebrew “I recollected my canticle in the night, and communed with my own heart, and my spirit sought to the bottom;” or, “I swept, (or directed, scopebam) my spirit,” (Saint Jerome) from all things unbecoming. Septuagint Εσκαλλον. “I dug and harrowed” it by earnest meditation, to extract the weeds, and make it fit to receive the divine seed, (Saint Jerome hic. and ep. ad Sun.) and to bring forth fruit; ( Bible.) or I swept to discover the precious jewel (Bert.) of salvation. Bible.—Scopebam, is not deemed a good Latin word; but seems to be derived from σκοπεω, “I consider or direct my aim;” though some think it means rather,” I swept.” Isaiah 14:23. Hugo reads scopabam. Calmet.—I diligently examined my conscience, ( Worthington.) and left nothing unturned, like the woman in the gospel who sought the groat. Menochius.—Hebrew yechapes, may also mean, “my spirit is set free,” to say what might seem too bold, Will God, and so forth Calmet.