The prosperity of sinners, and the distresses of good men, have been in all ages a stumbling-block even to the faithful. The prophet Jeremiah puts it down as an undeniable conclusion, that God is righteous; but yet desires permission to make an humble inquiry wherefore the way of the wicked should prosper? Jeremiah 12:1, etc. And Job's friends went upon no other conclusion in their ideas of Job's hypocrisy, but from the greatness of his calamities; Job 4:7-8. We cannot therefore sufficiently thank God the Holy Ghost that he hath condescended by this beautiful Psalm to set the doctrine in a clear light, and, before those brighter discoveries made of God's government in the gospel by our Lord Jesus Christ, that he should give the church those blessed views of his attention to the righteous, and sure punishment of the wicked. How very gracious, and kind, and affectionate, doth this Psalm open to this effect, and even in the opening, framing a conclusion similar to the prophet, Isaiah 3:10-11.
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Psalms 37:1-2
1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.