They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
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Gill's Exposition
They set their mouth against the heavens,.... Against God in heaven, see Dan 4:26, against his being, saying, there is no God; against his perfections, thinking him to be such an one as themselves;…
Barnes' Notes
They set their mouth against the heavens - Compare Rev 13:6. Literally, “They set their mouth in heaven,” or in the heavens. The idea is, they speak as if they were “in” the heavens; as if they were…
This psalm begins somewhat abruptly: Yet God is good to Israel (so the margin reads it); he had been thinking of the prosperity of the wicked; while he was thus musing the fire burned, and at last he…
Cambridge Bible
The A.V. gives a good sense: they blaspheme God and dictate to men. Cp. Dan 7:25. But probably the R.V. is right in rendering,
They have set their mouth In the heavens.
The clause expands the words…
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