Adam Clarke - Poéticos Jó a Cantares de Salomão

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1. “I will walk:” it shall be my constant employment.
2. “I will walk in my house:” I will see that my family fear God.
3. “I will walk with a perfect heart:” I shall do nothing for show; all
shall be sincere and pious.
In order to walk in this perfect way, he promises: —
1. “I will set no wicked thing before my eyes:” evil desires enter more
frequently into the soul by the eye than by any of the other senses.
2. “I hate the work of them that turn aside:” he that would leave sin
must hate and abhor it: he that leaves God is an object of abhorrence.
3. “It shall not cleave to me:” it will cleave to him who cleaves to it. He
who does not hate it, will cleave to it.
He shows what he will be towards the ungodly.
1. “A froward heart shall depart from me:” the headstrong, stubborn,
and refractory.
2. “I will not know the wicked:” I shall not only not approve of such,
but I will cultivate no acquaintance with them.
These wicked persons he particularizes. They are,
1. Slanderers: “Him that slandereth his neighbor I will cut off.”
2. The ambitious: “Him that hath a high look,” who wants influence and
honor.
3. The proud: the haughty, who thinks all born to be his vassals.
How he will treat the godly.
1. “His eye shall be upon the faithful.” Of them he will take especial
care; he shall dwell with me.
2. The truly religious, “he that walks in a perfect way,” shall be
employed by himself. “He shall serve me.”
He farther states what he will do in reference to the ungodly.