An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

These words fully clear up the sense, which I have given of that negative promise, he withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, namely, that the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous for good. His is not a bare beholding of them, favours flow from his eyes. When the eyes of God are upon the righteous, they find the sweet and benefit of it. In the former verse Elihu said, God will give the poor right, here he saith more, he will give the poor, the righteous poor, a reward, and that no small one, With Kings are they on the Throne.

The Latin translation reads this part of the verse,¹ not of the righteous poor, but of righteous Kings; He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, and he placeth Kings upon the Throne for ever. That's a truth, the Lord placeth Kings upon their Thrones, and establisheth them there; but that is not the meaning or truth of this place; nor will the Hebrew (with any tolerable convenience) bear such a translation.

The Latine translation reads this part of the verse,¹ not of the righteous poor, but of righteous Kings; He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous, and he placeth Kings upon the Throne for ever. That's a truth, the Lord placeth Kings upon their Thrones, and establisheth them there; but that is not the meaning or truth of this place; nor will the Hebrew (with any tolerable convenience) bear such a translation.

1. 1Et reges in solio collocat in perpetuum. Vulg:

Secondly, There are others, who,