By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.
Ver. 16. And nobles.] So called in the original, from their liberality and bounty. Hence Luk 22:25 this word is expressed by Eυεργεται, Bountiful, or benefactors, such as are ingenuous, free, munificent, endued with that free princely spirit. Psa 51:14
Even all the judges of the earth.] Though haply they be reckoned in the rank of bad men, but good princes; such as was Galba, and our Richard III, and Trajan, much magnified for a good emperor, and yet a drunkard and a cruel persecutor. a
a Plin. Secund. Dion. Cass.