18. The psalmist’s sorrow had culminated, not in the fact that the ungodly
prospered, but that God had arranged it so: had it happened by mere chance, he
would have wondered, but could not have complained; but how the arranger of all
things could so dispense his temporal favors was the vexatious question. Here
he sees that the divine hand purposely placed these men in prosperous and
eminent circumstances, not with the intent to bless them but the very reverse. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places. Their position was dangerous, and
therefore God did not set his friends there but his foes. He chose, in infinite
love, a rougher but safer standing for his own beloved. Thou castedst them down into destruction. They were elevated for the fuller execution of their
doom. Eternal punishment will be all the more terrible in contrast with the
former prosperity of those who are ripening for it. Their worldly joy renders
the effect the more awful. If the wicked had not been raised so high they could
not have fallen so low.
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