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The way of peace they know not; they are of such turbulent spirits, living in such continual contentions and discords, that, breaking in pieces the very bonds of society, they neither know,
1. How to make and keep peace; neither,
2. Do they feel or enjoy the sweet fruits of it; and therefore by consequence,
3. They take not the course that leads to prosperity and happiness. They are not friends to peace.
There is no judgment, i.e. no justice, equity, faith, or integrity, which are the foundation of judgment,
in their goings; as paths did note their habitual way or manner of living, so goings do signify their actual progress in that way, or their works; thus Job_14:16.
They have made them crooked paths; they walk by no rule, which should discover the crooked from the straight; they are full of unevennesses and uncertainties, contrary to what David speaks, Psa_26:12. The LXX. render it perverse. Moses joins them both together, Deu_32:5; and so doth Solomon, speaking what wisdom shall deliver from, Pro_2:15; and it stands in opposition to them that walk uprightly, Pro_28:18. It may note,
1. Their hypocrisy, that pretend one thing and do another, that oppress under a pretence of justice. Or,
2. Their professed and owned irregularities and deviations from the rule of justice. Shall not know peace, i.e. shall not experience it; whosoever do as they do will be turbulent and perverse, as they are, and have as little peace within, or happiness without, as they have, Isa_57:21. They shall be poisoned by having converse with them, as in Isa_59:5, which the next words do intimate.