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Then in his boundless carnal security he gives free course to his wicked tongue. That which the believer can say by reason of his fellowship with God, בַּל־אֶמֹּוט (Psa 30:7; Psa 16:8), is said by him in godless self-confidence. He looks upon himself in age after age, i.e., in the endless future, as אֲשֶׁר לֹא בְרָע, i.e., as one who (אֲשֶׁר as in Isa 8:20) will never be in evil case (בְרָע as in Exo 5:19; 2Sa 16:8). It might perhaps also be interpreted according to Zec 8:20, Zec 8:23 (vid., Köhler, in loc.): in all time to come (it will come to pass) that I am not in misfortune. But then the personal pronoun (אֲנִי or הוּא) ought not be omitted; whereas with our interpretation it is supplied from אֶמֹּוט, and there is no need to supply anything if the clause is taken as an apposition: in all time to come he who.... In connection with such unbounded self-confidence his mouth is full of אָלָה, cursing, execratio (not perjury, perjurium, a meaning the word never has), מִרְמֹות, deceit and craft of every kind, and תֹּךְ, oppression, violence. And that which he has under his tongue, and consequently always in readiness for being put forth (Psa 140:4, cf. Psa 66:17), is trouble for others, and in itself matured wickedness. Paul has made use of this Psa 10:7 in his contemplative description of the corruptness of mankind, Rom 3:14.