The characteristics of the "fool." Render: For a fool speaks folly and his heart works (LXX. "meditates") mischief, to practise impiety (cf. Isaiah 9:17) and to speak error (Isaiah 29:24) against Jehovah, &c. The fool here depicted is a free thinker, a practical atheist, as in Psalms 14:1; the baneful effect of his principles is seen in his conduct towards his fellow-men, in his pitiless and cruel selfishness.

to make empty to deprive the destitute of their scanty subsistence.

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