Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.
Ver. 9. Therefore is judgment far from us.] Here followeth the complaint of the godly party, together with their confession; this they knew well to be the readiest way to get off with comfort. God, say they here, hath neither avenged us on our enemies, nor showed us favour; he letteth our foes deal with us as we have dealt one with another.
We wait for light, but behold obscurity.] We promised ourselves a better estate, but ‘the matter mendeth with us,' quoth that martyr, ‘as sour ale doth in summer.'