8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
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8 Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
8 Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?
8 Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?
8 Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?
8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD. How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
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Commentary on Psalms 94 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 94
This psalm was penned when the church of God was under hatches, oppressed and persecuted; and it is an appeal to God, as the judge of heaven and earth, and an address to him, to appear for his people against his and their enemies. Two things this psalm speaks:-
In singing this psalm we must look abroad upon the pride of oppressors with a holy indignation, and the tears of the oppressed with a holy compassion; but, at the same time, look upwards to the righteous Judge with an entire satisfaction, and look forward, to the end of all these things, with a pleasing hope.
Psa 94:1-11
In these verses we have,
Psa 94:12-23
The psalmist, having denounced tribulation to those that trouble God's people, here assures those that are troubled of rest. See 2 Th. 1:6, 7. He speaks comfort to suffering saints from God's promises and his own experience.