I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
Ver. 12. I will declare thy righteousness,] i.e., Thine unrighteousness, by an irony; a or, Thy righteousness secundum dici, non secundum esse, thine hypocrisy.
For they shall not profit thee.] Nay, they shall undo thee.
a Antiphrasis ironica.