As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
Ver. 17. As he loved cursing, &c.] "The backslidcr in heart shall be filled with his own ways," Proverbs 14:14. Cursing men are cursed men, as were easy to instance in sundry, as Hacker, hanged in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and Sir Jervase Elloways, lieutenant of the Tower in King James's days, according to their own wishes. See Mr. Clark's Mirror, p. 210, &c. The Jews are still great cursers of Christians, they shut up their daily prayers with Maledic Domine Nazaraeis, and how it cometh home to them who knoweth not, even wrath to the utmost? 1 Thessalonians 2:16 .