Psalms 107:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. ”

• Psalms 107:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Fools, because of their transgression - Wicked people, considered as fools, because they “are” transgressors. Compare Psalms 14:1 , note; Psalms 73:3 , note; Psalms 75:4 , note. The immediate...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (g) Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. (g) They who have no fear of God, by his sharp rods are brought to call on him, and so find mercy.

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• Psalms 107:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  BOOK V. PSS. CVII.- CL. CVII. A Psalm of Thanksgiving for Yahweh's Special Goodness. It is divided at Psalms 107:8 f., Psalms 107:15 f., Psalms 107:21 f., Psalms 107:31 f. by a refrain: v...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Fools . the Perverse, depending on their own wisdom, which is foolishness with God ( 1 Corinthians 1:20-25 ). Compare Proverbs 1:7 ; Proverbs 12:15 ; Proverbs 14:3 ; Proverbs 14:9 ; Proverbs 15...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17 Fools are afflicted on account of the way of their transgression. He comes to another species of chastisement. For as he observed above, that those were given over to captivity who refuse...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Fools because of their transgression - This is the Third comparison; the captivity being compared to a person in...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Fools because of their transgression— The foolish, who depart from his way, and are brought low by their iniquities.— Ver. 18. Whose soul loatheth all manner of food, and who draw near to the gat...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Fools - sinners, in Bible diction; because sin is suicidal folly. Because of their transgression - lit...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Book 5 This book, which seems originally to have been joined with Book 4, contains forty-four Pss., the vast majority of which are of late date. The contents of these Pss. are a surer guide to the...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Fools — i.e., infatuated in wickedness. (Comp. the noun foolishness in Psalms 38:5 with the same ethical sense; and comp. Job 5:3 and the frequent connection of folly with sin in the book of...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Psalms 107:1-43 NOTWITHSTANDING the division of Books which separates Psalm evil from the two preceding, it is a pendant to these. The "gathering from among the heathen" prayed for in Psalms 106:...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “His Wonders in the Deep” Psalms 107:17-32 Sickness yields the third type of suffering. Emphasis is laid on the cause of the suffering, which in the view of the writer is transgression and sin....

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• Psalms 107:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  WE now begin the fifth and last book of the Psalter. In this book the music is richest and fullest. It begins in this psalm on the fundamental notes, and rises through major and minor, by the way of...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Under another similitude, the Psalmist here sets forth the miseries of our fallen nature, in order to display the benignity and compassion of Heaven in our recovery. When sin entered into the world,...

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• Psalms 107:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Fools, because of their transgression ,.... Or, "because of the way" h "of it"; their sinful course of life; for it is not for a single transgression they are afflicted, but for a continued series o...

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• Psalms 107:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Ver. 17. Fools because of their transgression ] Propter viam defectionis sum, by means of their defection, t...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Fools That is, wicked men whom he calls fools , because through their own sin and folly they wrong themselves, and act against their own interest; not only their spiritual, but their secular inter...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Divine Goodness towards the Afflicted.       17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, ar...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Fools, i.e. wicked men, whom he calls fools , because of the mischiefs which through their own folly they bring upon themselves. Because of their transgression, Heb. because of the way of their...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  INTRODUCTION Many expositors are of opinion that this Psalm was written to celebrate the return of the Jews from the Babylonian exile. This opinion is based chiefly on Psalms 107:2-3 . But the Psal...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Psalms 107:1 . O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. In the heading of this Psalm we are reminded that the psalmist here exhorts the redeemed, in praising...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  This psalm begins the fifth and last book of the Hebrew psalter. It is divided into five parts or pauses, as it would seem, in the singing and the music. The character of the composition, though dive...

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• Psalms 107:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good; for His mercy en-dureth for ever. Men and mercy I. Men consciously needing the mercy of Heaven. Morally, we are all distressed travellers, captives,...

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• Psalms 107:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION A SONG of thanksgiving, first for deliverance from the Babylonish captivity ( Psalms 107:1-19 ), and then for other deliverances ( Psalms 107:4-19 ), passing into a general account...

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• Psalms 107:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Fools because of their transgression, men devoid of proper mentality, as they prove themselves to be by indulging in sins which invariably carry their own punishment with them, like immorality and in...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 57:17 ; Isaiah 57:18 ; Jeremiah 2:19 ; Lamentations 3:39 ; Numbers 11:33 ; Numbers 11:34 ; Numbers 12:10-13 ; Numbers 21:5-9 ; Proverbs 1:22 ; Proverbs 7:22 ; Proverbs 7:7 ; Psalms...

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• Psalms 107:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Afflicted — With sickness.

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