They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
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Gill's Exposition
They search out iniquities,.... The Targum adds,
"to destroy the just.''
Either occasions against them, by charging them with sin and hiring false witnesses against them, as did the enemies both…
Barnes' Notes
They search out iniquities - They search deep; they examine plans; they rack their invention to accomplish it. The original word - חפשׂ châphaś - is a word which is used to denote the act of…
David, in these verses, puts in before God a representation of his own danger and of his enemies' character, to enforce his petition that God would protect him and punish them.
I. He earnestly begs of…
Cambridge Bible
They plan deeds of iniquity; We have perfected (say they) a consummate plan;
And each man's innermost thought and heart is deep.
The form of the verb is anomalous, and it is uncertain whether it is…
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