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Gill's Exposition
Surely he scorneth the scorners,.... That make a mock at sin, a jest of religion, that scoff at the doctrines of the Gospel and the professors of it; these the Lord looks upon, laughs at, and has them…
A marked change in style. The continuous exhortation is replaced by a series of maxims. From them to whom it is due - literally, as in the margin. The precept expresses the great Scriptural thought…
True wisdom consists in the due discharge of our duty towards man, as well as towards God, in honesty as well as piety, and therefore we have here divers excellent precepts of wisdom which relate to…
Cambridge Bible
Surely … but Or, Though … yet, R.V. margin. For the thought comp. Jas 4:6; 1Pe 5:5.
scorners See Pro 1:22, note.
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