5. Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off. He had known so bitterly the miseries caused by slanderers that he
intended to deal severely with such vipers when he came into power, not to
revenge his own neighbor but to prevent others from suffering as he had done. Him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. Proud,
domineering, supercilious gentlemen, who look down upon the poor as though they
were so many worms crawling in the earth beneath their feet, the psalmist could
not bear. He resolved that none should be great in his palace but those who had
more grace and more sense than to indulge in such abominable vanity. Proud men
are generally hard, and therefore very unfit for office.
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