11. Whether people admit or deny that God knows, one thing is here
declared, namely, that The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. Not their words alone
are heard, and their works seen, but he reads the secret motions of their
minds, for men themselves are not hard to be discerned of him; before his
glance they themselves are but vanity. It is in the Lord’s esteem no great
matter to know the thoughts of such transparent pieces of vanity as mankind
are; he sums them up in a moment as poor vain things. This is the sense of the
original, but that given in the Authorized Version is also true—the thoughts,
the best part, the most spiritual portion of human nature, even these are
vanity itself, and nothing better. And yet such a creature as this boasts,
plays at monarch, tyrannizes over his fellow worms, and defies his God! Madness
is mingled with human vanity, like smoke with the fog, to make it fouler but
not more substantial than it would have been alone.
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