Yet he also [is] wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
Ver. 2. Yet he also is wise.] Yea, he is "the only wise God," whatever the world's wizards think of him or of themselves. They counted the voyage down to Egypt the wisest way; a and to rest altogether upon God, to be altogether impolitic as the case now stood. Egypt also, they knew, was famous for wisdom, Isa 19:11-12 but considered not how God had fooled them, Exodus 1:10 ; Exo 1:12 and taken those foxes in their own craft. 1Co 3:19
And will bring evil.] To those evil counsellors especially,
“ Hδε κακη βουλη τω βουλευσαντι κακιστη ”
a Tacita antithesis in qua latet Antanaclasis.