Psalms 37:14

Swordand boware not merely figurative expressions for any means of inflicting injury. The Psalm deals with a state of society in which the poor and defenceless were in constant danger of actual violence (Psalms 37:32). Cp. Proverbs 1:10 ff.

the poor and needy Or, the afflicted and needy. See notes on Psalms 9:12; Psalms 9:18: and cp. Amos 8:4; Isaiah 32:7; Jeremiah 22:16.

such as be of upright conversation Lit. the upright of way:those whose life and conduct are upright. Cp. Psalms 119:1. The LXX however reads upright in heart(Psalms 36:10, and often).

conversation, as in Psalms 50:23, has the obsolete sense of manner of life, behaviour.