13-18. He notices the complaint of the Jews that it is of no profit
to serve Jehovah, for that the ungodly proud are happy; and declares He
will soon bring the day when it shall be known that He puts an
everlasting distinction between the godly and the ungodly.
words . . . stout--Hebrew, "hard"; so "the hard speeches which
ungodly sinners have spoken against Him"
(Jude 15)
[HENDERSON].
have we spoken--The Hebrew expresses at once their
assiduity and habit of speaking against God
[VATABLUS]. The niphal form of the verb
implies that these
things were said, not directly to God, but of God, to one
another
(Eze 33:20)
[MOORE].
JFB.
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