Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them.
Ver. 9. Their houses are safe from fear] Seculi laetitia est impunita nequitia. No domestic discords, no foreign disturbances, but peaceable possession and enjoyment of what they have; as much welfare as David wished to Nabal, 1 Samuel 25:5 : Thus shall ye say to him that lives (that is, that lives prosperously, for that is the only life), Peace be to thee, and to thine house, and to all that thou hast.
Neither is the rod of God upon them] So that they seem to themselves and others to be out of the reach of God's rod. "They are not in trouble, as other men, neither are they plagued like other men; therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain," &c., Psalms 73:5,6. Vermis divitiarum est superbia, It is hard for the rich not be high minded, 1 Timothy 6:17 (August.).