Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
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Gill's Exposition
Who have said, with our tongue will we prevail,.... Either through the eloquence of them, or the outward force and power with which they are backed. The sense is, as we say, so shall it be; our words…
Barnes' Notes
Who have said - Who habitually say. This does not mean that they had formally and openly said this - for none would be likely to do so - but that they had practically and really said this by their…
This psalm furnishes us with good thoughts for bad times, in which, though the prudent will keep silent (Amo 5:13) because a man may then be made an offender for a word, yet we may comfort ourselves…
Cambridge Bible
Who Namely, the owners of the flattering lips and boastful tongues. - Our tongue," they say, - we will make mighty: our lips are with us," under our own control, at command as faithful allies; who is…
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