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The poet here once more gives expression to the great opposites into which good fortune and misfortune are seemingly, but only seemingly, divided in a manner so contradictory to the divine justice. The central point of the confirmation that is introduced with כִּי lies in Psa 73:28. “Thy far removing ones” was to be expressed with רָחֵק, which is distinct from רָחֹוק. זָנָה has מִן instead of מִתַּחַת or מֵאַחֲרֵי after it. Those who remove themselves far from the primary fountain of life fall a prey to ruin; those who faithlessly abandon God, and choose the world with its idols rather than His love, fall a prey to destruction. Not so the poet; the nearness of God, i.e., a state of union with God, is good to him, i.e., (cf. Psa 119:71.) he regards as his good fortune. קִרְבָה is nom. act. after the form יִקְהָה, Arab. waqhat, obedience, and נִצְּרָה, a watch, Psa 141:3, and of essentially the same signification with ḳurba (קָרְבָה), the Arabic designation of the unio mystica; cf. Jam 4:8, ἐγγίσατε τῷ Θεῷ καὶ ἐγγιεῖ ὑμῖν. Just as קרבת אלהים stands in antithesis to רחקיך, so לִי טֹּוב stands in antithesis to יאבדו and הצמתה. To the former their alienation from God brings destruction; he finds in fellowship with God that which is good to him for the present time and for the future. Putting his confidence (מַחְסִּי, not מַֽחֲסִי) in Him, he will declare, and will one day be able to declare, all His מַלְאֲכֹות, i.e., the manifestations or achievements of His righteous, gracious, and wise government. The language of assertion is quickly changed into that of address. The Psalm closes with an upward look of grateful adoration to God beforehand, who leads His own people, ofttimes wondrously indeed, but always happily, viz., through suffering to glory.