Blessings [are] upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Ver. 6. Blessings are upon the head.] Plentifully and conspicuously; they shall abound with blessings. Pro 28:20 As the fear of the Lord is not only in them, but upon them, 2Ch 19:7 so blessings of all sorts, a confluence of all spiritual and temporal comforts and contentments, shall be not only with them, but upon them, so that nothing shall hinder it. See Galatians 6:16. They are blessed, and they shall be blessed, Gen 27:33 neither shall any roaring or repining Esau be able to reverse it.
But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.] They shall be certainly shamed, condemned, executed, as Haman, whose face they covered, Est 7:8 and shortly after strangled; and as Sir Gervaise Ellowayes, lieutenant of the Tower, hanged on Tower Hill for poisoning Sir Thomas Overbury, his prisoner. This Sir Gervaise being on the gallows, freely confessed that he had oft, in his playing at cards and dice, wished that he might be hanged if it were not so and so, and therefore confessed it was just upon him.