Psalms 94:4 [How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

Ver. 4. How long shall they utter] Heb. They will bluster (or well-out, as a fountain), they will speak hard things (speak millstones, throw daggers), they will boast themselves (talk largely of their good parts and practices); all this is expressed by an elegant asyndeton, a to show that they did all this ordinarily and incessantly.

Aκολαστον εχοντες γλωσσαν, αισχιστην νοσον

(Euripid.).

a A rhetorical figure which omits the conjunction.

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