SEV Biblia, Chapter 11:5
El SEÑOR prueba al justo; pero al malo y al que ama la rapiña, su alma aborrece.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 10:6
Verse 6. Upon the wicked he shall rain ] This is a manifest allusion to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Snares ] Judgments shall fall upon them suddenly and unawares.
Fire ] Such as shall come immediately from God, and be inextinguishable.
Brimstone ] Melted by the fire, for their drink! This shall be the portion of their cup.
A horrible tempest ] twp[lz jwr roach zilaphoth, "the spirit of terrors." Suffering much, and being threatened with more, they shall be filled with confusion and dismay. My old MS. has "gost of stormis." See at the end. Or, the blast of destructions. This may refer to the horribly suffocating Arabian wind, called Smum.
Mohammed, in describing his hell, says, "The wicked shall drink nothing there but hot stinking water; breathe nothing but burning winds; and eat nothing but the fruit of the tree zakon, which shall be in their bellies like burning pitch." Hell enough! The portion of their cup. - Cup is sometimes put for plenty, for abundance; but here it seems to be used to express the quantum of sorrow and misery which the wicked shall have on the earth. See Psa. lxxv. 8; Isa. li. 17, 21- 23; Jer. xxv. 15; xlix. 12; Lam. iv. 21, 22. It is also used in reference to the afflictions of the righteous, Matt. xx. 22; xxvi. 39, 42; John xviii. 11.
We find a similar metaphor among the heathens. The following, from Homer, Il. xxiv., ver. 525, is in point: ] Æwv gar epeklwsanto qeoi deiloisi brotoisi, zwein acnumenouv autoi de tÆ akhdeev eisi, doioi gar te piqoi katakeiatai en diov oudei dwrwn, oia didwsi, kakwn eterov de eawn Æw men kammizav dwh zeuv terpikeraunov, allote men te kakw oge kuretai, allote dÆ esqlw.
Such is, alas! the god's severe decree, They, only they are bless'd, and only free.
Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good.
From thence the CUP of mortal man he fills: Blessings to these; to those distributes ills.
To most he mingles both: the wretch decreed To taste the bad unmixed, is curs'd indeed.- POPE.
Matthew Henry Commentary
David's struggle with, and triumph over a strong temptation to distrus God, and betake himself to indirect means for his own safety, in a tim of danger.
--Those that truly fear God and serve him, are welcome to put their trust in him. The psalmist, before he gives an account of his temptation to distrust God, records his resolution to trust in Him, a that by which he was resolved to live and die. The believer, though no terrified by his enemies, may be tempted, by the fears of his friends to desert his post, or neglect his work. They perceive his danger, but not his security; they give him counsel that savours of worldly policy rather than of heavenly wisdom. The principles of religion are the foundations on which the faith and hope of the righteous are built. We are concerned to hold these fast against all temptations to unbelief for believers would be undone, if they had not God to go to, God to trust in, and future bliss to hope for. The prosperity of wicked people in their wicked, evil ways, and the straits and distresses which the best men are sometimes brought into, tried David's faith. We need no say, Who shall go up to heaven, to fetch us thence a God to trust in The word is nigh us, and God in the word; his Spirit is in his saints those living temples, and the Lord is that Spirit. This God governs the world. We may know what men seem to be, but God knows what they are, a the refiner knows the value of gold when he has tried it. God is sai to try with his eyes, because he cannot err, or be imposed upon. If he afflicts good people, it is for their trial, therefore for their good However persecutors and oppressors may prosper awhile, they will for ever perish. God is a holy God, and therefore hates them. He is righteous Judge, and will therefore punish them. In what a horribl tempest are the wicked hurried away at death! Every man has the portio of his cup assigned him. Impenitent sinner, mark your doom! The las call to repentance is about to be addressed to you, judgement is a hand; through the gloomy shade of death you pass into the region of eternal wrath. Hasten then, O sinner, to the cross of Christ. Ho stands the case between God and our souls? Is Christ our hope, ou consolation, our security? Then, not otherwise, will the soul be carried through all its difficulties and conflicts __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
יהוה 3068 צדיק 6662 יבחן 974 ורשׁע 7563 ואהב 157 חמס 2555 שׂנאה 8130 נפשׁו׃ 5315
