Psalms 14

Psalms 14:1

Let me - I desire nothing more than to have my heart and life weighed in just balances, and searched out by the all - seeing God. That God - Or, and he will know; (upon search he will find out: which is spoken of God after the manner of men:) Mine integrity - So this is an appeal to God to be witness of his sincerity.

Psalms 14:2

Heart - If I have let my heart loose to covet forbidden things, which mine eyes have seen: commonly sin enters by the eye into the heart. A blot - Any unjust gain.

Psalms 14:3

Increase - All my plants, and fruits, and improvements.

Psalms 14:5

Then - Not as if Job desired this; but that if God should give up his wife to such wickedness, he should acknowledge his justice in it.

Psalms 14:6

This - Adultery. It is - Heb. an iniquity of the judges; which belongs to them to take cognizance of, and to punish, even with death; and that not only by the law of Moses, but even by the law of nature, as appears from the known laws and customs of the Heathen nations.

Psalms 14:7

Destruction - Lust is a fire in the soul; it consumes all that is good there, the convictions, the comforts; and lays the conscience waste. It consumes the body, consumes the substance, roots out all the increase. It kindles the fire of God’s wrath, which if not quenched by the blood of Christ, will burn to the lowest hell.