Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all [things].
Ver. 5. Evil men understand not judgment.] They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge: their wits work not that way; they are bard and brutish as "horse and mule." Psa 32:9 Yea, they fall beneath the stirrup of reason, and know not their owner, which yet the ox and ass doth; Isa 1:3 no wiser at seventy years old than at seven. Ut liberius peccent, libenter ignorant, not willing to know what they are not minded to practise.
But they that seek the Lord understand all things.] Not all that is possible to be known, as Averroes saith Aristotle did; as the Civilians say their Baldus did; a as the Papists say Tostatus did; but they understand all things needful to salvation, and they often meditate on the last judgment.
a De Baldo dicere solebant nihil unquam eum ignorasse.