All the words of my mouth [are] in righteousness; [there is] nothing froward or perverse in them.
Ver. 8. All the words.] The Rabbis have a saying, that there is a mountain of sense hanging upon every tittle of the Scriptures.
There is nothing froward or perverse in them.] Some places of Scripture may seem to cross other places, but they do only seem so. Men may think they are like the accusers of Christ, never a one speaking like the other; but those that understand them shall find them like Nathan and Bathsheba, both speaking the same things. The old Rabbis could not reconcile Ecclesiastes (some passages in it) to the rest of the Holy Scriptures, and had therefore some thoughts to conceal it from the people a But this was their weakness, and would have been their wickedness.
a Kabuenaki.