BOOK OF PSALMS THE ARGUMENT The divine authority of this Book of PSALMS is so certain and evident, that it was never questioned in the church; which being fixed, it is of small moment that the penman of some of them is not now known; nor doth this any more lessen its authority, than it invalidates…

The Hebrew words are very emphatical, Blessedness belongs to that man, or, Oh the blessedness of that man Thrice blessed is that man; who is here described negatively, and in the next verse positively. That walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, i.e.

In the law, i.e. in the study and practice of it, as appears from the context. The law of God may be here understood of the whole doctrine delivered by God to the church, consisting of doctrines, precepts, promises, and threatening, &c. as it is taken Ps. 37:1, Ps. 58:1, Isa.

And, or for, as this particle is oft used, as Ps. 60:12, Ps. 108:13, Prov. 4:17; this being the proof of that blessedness of a good man, which he had only asserted, Ps. 1:1. By the rivers, i.e. a river; the plural number being put for the singular, as it is Judg. 12:7, Jonah 1:5, and oft elsewhere.

The ungodly are not so; their condition is far differing from the former. But are like the chaff; in regard either, 1. Of their sinful disposition. They are vain and frothy, unprofitable and hurtful, without any root of true and solid goodness, without any certain end or constant course, tossed to…

Therefore, to wit, because they are ungodly; or because, as this particle is sometimes used, as Gen. 38:26, Num. 10:31, Num. 14:43, Ps. 42:6; for this verse is added to enforce or prove what he said in the former. Shall not stand, i.e.

For; he now gives a reason of this great difference between the righteous and the ungodly, expressed in the foregoing verses. The Lord knoweth; either, 1.