Psalms 93:4
Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- effabuntur et loquentur iniquitatem ; loquentur omnes qui operantur injustitiam ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- φθέγξονται καὶ λαλήσουσιν ἀδικίαν, λαλήσουσιν πάντες οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι τὴν ἀνομίαν;
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 94:4
- יַבִּ֣יעוּ יְדַבְּר֣וּ עָתָ֑ק יִֽ֝תְאַמְּר֗וּ כָּל פֹּ֥עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine City of God, Of the Limits Which Must Be Put to the Necessity of Replying to an Adversary
If the feeble mind of man did not presume to resist the clear evidence of truth, but yielded its infirmity to wholesome doctrines, as to a health-giving medicine, until it obtained from God, by its faith and piety, the grace needed to heal it, they who have just ideas, and express them in suitable language, would need to use no long discourse to refute the errors of empty conjecture. But this mental infirmity is now more prevalent and hurtful than ever, to such an extent that even after the truth has been as fully demonstrated as man can prove it to man, they hold for the very truth their own unreasonable fancies, either on account of their great blindness, which prevents them from seeing what is plainly set before them, or on account of their opinionative obstinacy, which prevents them from acknowledging the force of what they do see. …
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XCIV
5. “Lord, how long shall the ungodly, how long shall the ungodly triumph?” ( ver. 3 ). “They answer, and will speak wickedness, they all will speak that work unrighteousness” ( ver. 4 ). What is their saying, but against God, when they say: What profiteth it us that we live thus? What wilt thou reply? Doth God truly regard our deeds? For because they live, they imagine that God knoweth not their actions. Behold, what evil happeneth unto them! If the officers knew where they were, they would arrest them; and they therefore avoid the officer’s eyes, that they may escape instant apprehension; but no one can escape the eye of God, since He not only seeth within the closet, but within the recesses of the heart. …