14
Because the hope of the ungodly man is like chaff carried by the wind, and as foam vanishing before a tempest; and is scattered like smoke by the wind, and passes by as the remembrance of a guest who stays just a day.
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Verse 14. Such, and so forth This is not in the original; but supplied to complete the sense, ( Calmet.) as otherwise the following remarks would seem to be the confession of the damned in hell, ( Bible.) or before the judgment-seat. Castro.—The past time is used to shew the certainty of the event. Worthington.
Greek like foam chased to thinness: or, as thin foam chased.
Most Greek authorities read hoar frost: some authorities, perhaps rightly, a spider’s web.
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