27 to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the devious you show yourself shrewd.
27 with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
27 You're good to good people, you shrewdly work around the bad ones.
27 With the pure You will show Yourself pure; And with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd.
27 To the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:27
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David's psalm of thanksgiving.
This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as 2 Timothy 4:18. Those who receive signal mercies from God, ought to give him the glory. In the day that God delivered David, he sang this song. While the mercy is fresh, and we are most affected with it, let the thank-offering be brought, to be kindled with the fire of that affection. All his joys and hopes close, as all our hopes should do, in the great Redeemer.