Verse 4
4. A vile person is contemned This clause relates to the moral estimate given of a worthless character. The true, or ideal, man described in the text despises a “vile” person. He hates the hateful because he loves the lovely. He esteems as reprobate that which ought to be rejected, because his own moral sensibilities and perceptions are just and holy.
Honoureth them that fear the Lord Here is the rule by which his judgments and conduct are governed. Because his own aim is to honour God, he honoureth them that fear God.
Sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not Not that a promise to do a wrong thing is binding either in equity or conscience, of which character is Herod’s oath, (Matthew 14:9;) but that a vow or engagement to do that which in itself is lawful and right must be kept, though the performance should involve pecuniary loss or personal suffering. Fidelity to just contracts is fundamental justice. See Numbers 30:2; Judges 11:35
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