A divine sentence [is] in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.
Ver. 10. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king.] It is, or should be. His words usually pass for oracles, and many times stand for laws. It should be his care, therefore, to "speak as the oracles of God." 1Pe 4:11 Yea, "so to speak, and so to do, as one that shall be judged by the law of liberty," Jam 2:12 or, as some read it, As they that should judge by the law of liberty. Our old word Koning, and by contraction King, comes of Con, saith Becanus, which comprehends three things, Possum, scio, audeo - I can do it, I know how to do it, and I dare do it. If either he want power, or skill, or courage to do justice, the people, instead of admiring his divinations, will cry out of him, as the Romans did of Pompey, Miseria nostra magnus est: This great one is our great misery.
His mouth transgresseth not in judgment.] Viz, If he ask counsel at God's mouth, as David did, and execute "justice, justice," as Moses speaks, Deuteronomy 16:20 , marg. that is, pure justice, without mud or mixture of selfish affections sparing neither the great for might, nor the mean for misery.