A false witness shall not be unpunished, and [he that] speaketh lies shall not escape.
Ver. 5. A false witness shall not be unpunished.] Many poor people care not to lend their rich friend an oath at a need; and many rich, though they think ill of pillory perjury, yet they make little conscience of a merry lie. Neither of these shall pass unpunished. And this sentence may be to them, as those knuckles of a man's hand were to Belshazzar, to write them their destiny, or as Daniel was to him, to read it unto them.