For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Ver. 19. For the good, &c.] Nature, like Eve and Job's wife, is always drawing us from God. As the ferryman plies the oar, and eyes the shore homeward, where he would be, yet there comes a gust of wind that carries him back again; so it is with a Christian. Corruption, egged with a temptation, gets as it were the hill, and the wind, and, upon such advantages, too often prevaileth.