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The wicked walk on every side; which phrase may note,
1. Their great numbers; they fill all places.
2. Their freedom and safety; they are not restrained nor punished, but go about boldly and securely whither they please.
3. Their proficiency and success, which is sometimes signified by this verb, as Gen_26:13 1Sa_2:21 Isa_40:31. They grow worse and worse, and prosper in and by their wickedness.
4. Their incessant and unwearied industry in doing mischief to good men. Compare 1Pe_5:8. And this is very fitly here added, as another argument to prevail with God to arise to help his poor people who are oppressed by wicked men.
The vilest men, Heb. vilenesses, i.e. all manner of wickedness, lying and slandering, profaneness; oppression, cruelty, and the like; or, vile persons, the abstract being put for the concrete, which is frequent, as pride, Psa_36:11, for a proud man, and many such like; both comes to one, vile persons and vile practices were both advanced and encouraged through Saul’s misgovernment, whereby all the foundations were destroyed, as he complained, Psa_11:3. The Hebrew word zolel (whence this zuloth comes) signifies first a glutton or drunkard, as Deu_21:20 Pro_23:21, and thence any vile person, as Jer_15:19 Lam_1:11.