They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression: they speak loftily.
Ver. 8. They are corrupt, and speak wickedly] Their pride, before taxed, Psalms 73:6, buddeth, and budgeth, Ezekiel 7:10; like a foul swelling in the body, it breaketh out into sores of all sorts, odious words and deeds, abominable to God and man. Diffiuuut et loquuntur in malitia rapinata, they melt and are spilt in sensual delights and dissolute practices. Or, they let loose themselves, and keep not within compass. Or, they secretly corrupt and make to stink the good names of others, sc. while they speak evil of them, and reproach them. Tabifici sunt, so Tremellius rendereth it.
They speak loftily] De celsitudine, from aloft; lapides loquuntur, they threaten thunderbolts, throw daggers, fastuosa voce omnes territant.