And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
Ver. 6. And in my prosperity I said] Or, in my tranquillity. Then it was that he was overgrown with security; as was also Job, Job 29:18,20; See Trapp on "Job "29:18" See Trapp on "Job "29:19" See Trapp on "Job "29:20" Job 9:18. How many have burnt their wings about Job's candle? Job 29:3, saith one. Oh the hazard of honour! damage of dignity! how soon are we broken upon the soft pillow of ease! Lunatics, when the moon is declining and in the wane, are sober enough; but when full, more wild and exorbitant. Flies settle upon the sweetest perfumes when cold; so do sin and Satan's temptations on the best hearts, when dissolved and dispirited by prosperity: watch therefore. Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dung hill was a conqueror.
I shall never be moved] Excessere metum mea iam bona. David, by misreckoning of a point, missed the haven, and had almost run upon the rocks. (Niobe apud Ovid), Maior sum quam cui possit fortuna nocere. How apt are the holiest to be proud and secure! even as worms and wasps eat the sweetest apples and fruits. What reason had David to promise himself more than ever God promised him, immunity from the cross? Did he think (as Dionysius afterwards did, but was clearly confuted soon after) that his kingdom, and with it prosperity, was tied unto him with cords of adamant? What though he sat quietly now at Jerusalem, 2 Samuel 11:1, free from fear of enemies, and could find time to look and lust after his neighbour's wife, would this always hold, thought he? and could not God set up his own darling Absalom, to put him to trouble? No; David said in his prosperity, Non vacillabo, I shall never be moved; and why?