For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
Ver. 17. For the iniquity of his covetousness.] Or, Of his concupiscence, the sin of his nature. But covetousness is a wickedness with a witness, the "root of all evil." 1Ti 6:10 Timon could say that there were two sources of all sin, viz., απληστιαν και φιλοδοξιαν, covetousness and vainglory.
And he went on frowardly in the way of his own heart,] i.e., Excaecotus sequitur animalem suum spiritum, he, blindling, blundered on, without fear or wit, cross grained and irreclaimable.