The Treasury of David
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
The Hebrew puts this verse yet more fully: “The Lord is knowing
the way of the righteous.” He is
constantly looking on their way, and though it may be often in mist and
darkness, yet the Lord knows it. If it be in the clouds and tempest of
affliction, he understands it. He numbers the hairs of our head; he will not
let any evil come to us (see Job23:10). But the way of the ungodly shall perish. Not only will they
perish themselves, but their way will perish too. The righteous carves
his name upon the rock, but the wicked writes his remembrance in the sand. The
righteous man plows the furrows of earth, and sows a harvest here which will
never be fully reaped till he enters the enjoyments of eternity; but as for the
wicked, he plows the sea, and though there may seem to be a shining trail
beghind his keel, yet the waves will pass over it, and the place that knew him
will know him no more forever. The very way of the ungodly will perish.
If it exist in remembrance, it will be in the remembrance of the bad; for the
Lord will cause the name of the wicked to rot, to become a stench in the
nostrils of the good, and to be only known to the wicked themselves by its
putridity.
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