2 When the wicked advance against me to devour
2 When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.
2 When vandal hordes ride down ready to eat me alive, Those bullies and toughs fall flat on their faces.
2 When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell.
2 When evil people come to devour me, when my enemies and foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.
22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
22 Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
22 Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
22 Do you have to be hard on me too? Don't you ever tire of abusing me?
22 Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
22 Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven't you chewed me up enough?
(Read Job 19:8-22)
How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends. How uncertain is the friendship of men! but if God be our Friend, he will not fail us in time of need. What little reason we have to indulge the body, which, after all our care, is consumed by diseases it has in itself. Job recommends himself to the compassion of his friends, and justly blames their harshness. It is very distressing to one who loves God, to be bereaved at once of outward comfort and of inward consolation; yet if this, and more, come upon a believer, it does not weaken the proof of his being a child of God and heir of glory.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 27:2
Commentary on Psalm 27:1-6
(Read Psalm 27:1-6)
The Lord, who is the believer's light, is the strength of his life; not only by whom, but in whom he lives and moves. In God let us strengthen ourselves. The gracious presence of God, his power, his promise, his readiness to hear prayer, the witness of his Spirit in the hearts of his people; these are the secret of his tabernacle, and in these the saints find cause for that holy security and peace of mind in which they dwell at ease. The psalmist prays for constant communion with God in holy ordinances. All God's children desire to dwell in their Father's house. Not to sojourn there as a wayfaring man, to tarry but for a night; or to dwell there for a time only, as the servant that abides not in the house for ever; but to dwell there all the days of their life, as children with a father. Do we hope that the praising of God will be the blessedness of our eternity? Surely then we ought to make it the business of our time. This he had at heart more than any thing. Whatever the Christian is as to this life, he considers the favour and service of God as the one thing needful. This he desires, prays for and seeks after, and in it he rejoices.