Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Ver. 22. Do we provoke the Lord] As Caligula that dared his Jove to a duel; as the raging Turk at the last assault of Scodra most horribly blaspheming God. But who knoweth the power of his anger? Psalms 90:11. It is such as none can avert or avoid, avoid or abide. To such therefore as will needs provoke the Lord, we may well say, as Ulysses' companions said to him, when he would needs provoke Polydamas;
" Σχετλιε τιπτ εθελεις ερεθιζεμεν αγριον ανδρα .
What mean'st thou, wretch, to enrage this cruel man?"