For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
Ver. 18. For he knew that for envy] His sin was the greater for his knowledge,James 4:17. Omne peccatum contra conscientiam aedificat ad gehennam, saith Gerson. When men imprison their light (that prophet from God), Romans 1:18, and after conviction run away with the bit in their mouths, as it were, they run, without God's greater mercy, upon their utter ruin and destruction. Tostatus truly observeth, that Solomon's idolatry was a sin far more sinful than that of his wives, because against knowledge.