Teks -- Psalms 119:118 (NET)

119:118 You despise all who stray from your statutes, for they are deceptive and unreliable.

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Wesley: Psa 119:118 - Deceit

Their deceitful devices, shall bring that destruction upon themselves which they design for others.

JFB: Psa 119:118-120

But the disobedient and rebellious will be visited by God's wrath, which impresses the pious with wholesome fear and awe.

JFB: Psa 119:118-120 - their deceit is falsehood

That is, all their cunning deceit, wherewith they seek to entrap the godly, is in vain.

Clarke: Psa 119:118 - Thou hast trodden down

Thou hast trodden down - All thy enemies will be finally trodden down under thy feet

Clarke: Psa 119:118 - Their deceit is falsehood

Their deceit is falsehood - Their elevation is a lie. The wicked often become rich and great, and affect to be happy, but it is all false; they have neither a clean nor approving conscience. Nor can they have thy approbation; and, consequently, no true blessedness.

Calvin: Psa 119:118 - Thou hast trodden under foot all those who wander from thy statutes

118.Thou hast trodden under foot all those who wander from thy statutes By treading under foot he means, that God overthrows all the despisers of his law, and casts them down from that loftiness which they assume to themselves. The phrase is directed against the foolish, or rather frantic, confidence with which the wicked are inflated, when they recklessly deride the judgments of God; and, what is more, scruple not to magnify themselves against him, as if they were not subject to his power. The last clause is to be particularly noticed: for their deceit is falsehood ⁴³⁹ By these words the prophet teaches, that the wicked gain nothing by their wiles, but that they are rather entangled in them, or at length discover that they were mere sleight of hand. Those ignorantly mar the sense who interpose the copula and, as if it had been said, that deceit and falsehood were in them The word רמוה , remyah, signifies a subtle and crafty device. Interpreters, indeed, often translate it thought; but this term does not sufficiently express the propriety and force of the Hebrew word. The prophet means, that, however well pleased the wicked are with their own cunning, they yet do nothing else than deceive themselves with falsehood. And it was needful to add this clause; for we see how the great bulk of mankind are fatally intoxicated with their own vain imaginations, and how difficult it is to believe what is here asserted, — that the more shrewd they are in their own estimation, the more do they deceive themselves.

TSK: Psa 119:118 - trodden // err // their deceit

trodden : Isa 25:10, Isa 63:3; Mal 4:3; Luk 21:24; Rev 14:20

err : Psa 119:10, Psa 119:21, Psa 95:10

their deceit : Psa 119:29, Psa 78:36, Psa 78:37, Psa 78:57; Isa 44:20; Eph 4:22, Eph 5:6; 2Th 2:9-11; 2Ti 3:13; 1Jo 2:21; Rev 18:23

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Psa 119:118

Ver. 118. All their crafty and deceitful devices, by which they design to insnare and ruin me, and other good men, shall deceive them and their own expectations, and bring that destruction upon themselves which they design for others.

Gill: Psa 119:118 - Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes // for their deceit is falsehood

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes,.... That wander from the way of the Lord's commandments; that deviate from his precepts, go astray constantly and wilfully; a people that err in their hearts, and with all their hearts. These the Lord treads down, as mire in the streets, as grapes in a winepress; which shows his abhorrence of them, his indignation at them, and how easily they are subdued under him;

for their deceit is falsehood: or, "their hypocrisy is a lie" ^m: the appearance they make is a false one; they appear outwardly righteous, but are inwardly wicked; have a form of godliness, but deny the power of it: or all their deceitful doctrines are lies in hypocrisy, though dressed up with all the art and cunning they are masters of; or all their subtle schemes to corrupt and subvert the true doctrines of the word are in vain and to no purpose.