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Psalms 18:26
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With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the froward thou wilt shewe thy selfe froward.
with the pureyou prove yourself pure;but with the crookedyou prove yourself shrewd.
With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
You never do wrong to those who have done no wrong. But you outsmart the wicked, no matter how clever they are.
with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
With the pure You show Yourself pure, And with the crooked You show Yourself astute.
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.
With all who are sincere, you are sincere, but you treat the unfaithful as their deeds deserve.
With the merciful, you are merciful; with a man who is sincere, you are sincere;
With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, with the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright;
With the pure thou wilt shewe thy selfe pure, and with the froward thou wilt shew thy selfe froward.
And with the excellent man thou wilt be excellent; and with the perverse thou wilt shew frowardness.
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt shew thyself froward.
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
To the pure you show yourself pure. but to the wicked you show yourself shrewd.
with the pure You reveal Yourself as pure; and with the perverting ones You appear perverse;
You are pure to those who are pure, but you are against those who are bad.
You prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.
With the pure You will show Yourself pure; And with the devious You will show Yourself shrewd.
To the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd.
With the pure, You show Yourself pure. With the sinful You show Yourself to be against them.
With the pure, thou didst show thyself pure, But, with the perverse, thou didst show thyself ready to contend.
(17-27) And withe the elect thou wilt be elect: and with the perverse thou wilt be perverted.
With the clean thou shalt be clean; and from the crooked thou shalt turn aside.
With the pure You show Yourself pure, And with the crooked You show Yourself astute.
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.
With the cleane thou wylt be cleane: and with the frowarde thou wylt be frowarde.
with the pure you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you show yourself perverse.
With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.
With the hooli, thou schalt be hooli; and with `a man innocent, thou schalt be innocent.
With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,
With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.
with the pure thou dost show thyself pure; and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.
With the pure you will show yourself pure; And with the perverse you will show yourself froward.
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt contend.
He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.
With the clene thou shalt be clene & with the frowarde thou shalt be frowarde.
With the pure You show Yourself pure, And with the crooked You show Yourself astute.
With the pure You show Yourself pure,And with the crooked You show Yourself astute.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
froward: Psalms 109:17-19, Leviticus 26:23, Leviticus 26:24, Leviticus 26:27, Leviticus 26:28, Proverbs 3:34, Romans 2:4-6, Romans 2:9, James 2:13
show thyself froward: or, wrestle
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:27 - show thyself unsavoury 2 Chronicles 19:11 - the Lord Job 5:13 - of the froward Psalms 25:10 - the paths Psalms 146:9 - the way Proverbs 3:32 - the froward Proverbs 11:20 - of Proverbs 17:20 - He that hath a froward heart Proverbs 22:5 - Thorns Matthew 5:8 - are Matthew 7:2 - General Luke 6:38 - with
Cross-References
Even if one person out of ten remains in the land, he too will be destroyed; he will be like the stump of an oak tree that has been cut down." (The stump represents a new beginning for God's people.)
Even though now there are as many people of Israel as there are grains of sand by the sea, only a few will come back. Destruction is in store for the people, and it is fully deserved.
When that time comes, Israel will rank with Egypt and Assyria, and these three nations will be a blessing to all the world.
The Lord says, "No one destroys good grapes; instead, they make wine with them. Neither will I destroy all my people—I will save those who serve me.
People of Jerusalem, run through your streets! Look around! See for yourselves! Search the marketplaces! Can you find one person who does what is right and tries to be faithful to God? If you can, the Lord will forgive Jerusalem.
I looked for someone who could build a wall, who could stand in the places where the walls have crumbled and defend the land when my anger is about to destroy it, but I could find no one.
But God has already reduced the number of days; had he not done so, nobody would survive. For the sake of his chosen people, however, God will reduce the days.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure,.... None of Adam's posterity are pure by nature; they are all defiled with sin; and though some are pure in their own eyes, they are far from being cleansed from their filthiness; such only are pure who are sanctified by the Spirit of God, have clean hearts created in them, and whose hearts are purified by faith in the blood of Christ; who are justified by Christ's righteousness, and are washed from their sins in his blood; and who, in consequence of such grace, love, pureness of heart, speak a pure language, hold the mystery of faith in a pure conscience, and with a pure conversation, and live soberly, righteously, and godly: and whereas God is a pure and holy Being, his perfections, works, and word, are pure; he shows himself to be so to such persons, by providing for the honour of his purity and holiness in their redemption, sanctification, and salvation; by making all things to be pure to them; by granting them his presence, and blessing them with the vision of himself here and hereafter; see Matthew 5:8; this may likewise be understood of Christ, who, in his human nature, is pure from all sin, both original and actual: he indeed took upon him the sins of his people, and bore them, and made satisfaction for them, and brought in everlasting righteousness; which being done, God has showed himself pure to him, by justifying, acquitting, and discharging him from all such sins; by accepting his righteousness, and imputing it to those for whom he wrought it;
and with the froward thou wilt show thyself froward; or "thou wrestlest" b, or wilt contend with them until they are destroyed: the same word is here used which Naphtali has his name from, Genesis 30:8. The froward are such as are of perverse dispositions, and of stubborn and obstinate tempers, and whose ways are crooked and distorted; and such were the people of the Jews in the times of Moses, and of Christ,
Deuteronomy 32:5; and who seem here to be designed; even the Jews in Christ's time, who were just the reverse of the above characters, were cruel and unmerciful, faithless and hypocritical, filthy and pure, disbelieved the Messiah, rejected and crucified him, were contrary to God, and to all men; and therefore God walked contrary to them, as he threatened, Leviticus 26:27; the same as showing himself froward to them; for God is not froward and perverse in himself, nor in his ways, which are all equal, just, and pure: and though there is one and the same word used in our version, yet there are two different words in the Hebrew text; the same word that is used of the froward is not used of God; that which is used of God, as before observed, signifies wrestling, and designs God's contending with the people of the Jews, in a way of wrath and fury, which came upon them to the uttermost, and issued in their entire ruin as a people and nation; the words here had their fulfilment in the destruction of Jerusalem.
b תתפתל "eluctaris", Junius Tremellius "colluctaris", Aben Ezra; "reluctaris", Gejerus; "certas", Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
With the pure - Those who are pure in their thoughts, their motives, their conduct.
Thou wilt show thyself pure - They will find that they have to deal with a God who is himself pure; who loves purity, and who will accompany it with appropriate rewards wherever it is found.
And with the froward - The word used here - עקשׁ ‛iqqêsh - means properly perverse; a man of a perverse and wicked mind. It is derived from a verb - עקשׁ ‛âqash - which means, to turn the wrong way, to wrest, to pervert. It would be applicable to a man who perverts or wrests the words of others from their true meaning; who prevaricates or is deceitful in his own conduct; who is not straightforward in his dealings; who takes advantage of circumstances to impose on others, and to promote his own ends; who is sour, harsh, crabbed, unaccommodating, unyielding, unkind. It is rendered perverse in Deuteronomy 32:5; Proverbs 8:8; Proverbs 19:1; Proverbs 28:6; froward here, and in 2 Samuel 22:27; Psalms 101:4; Proverbs 11:20; Proverbs 17:20; Proverbs 22:5; and crooked in Proverbs 2:15. The word does not occur elsewhere in the Old Testament.
Thou wilt show thyself froward - Margin, wrestle. In the corresponding place in 2 Samuel 22:27 it is rendered, “Thou wilt show thyself unsavory;” though the same word is used in the original. In the margin in that place, as here, the word is wrestle. The original word in each place - פתל pâthal - means to twist, to twine, to spin; and then, to be twisted; to be crooked, crafty, deceitful. In the form of the word which occurs here (Hithpael), it means, to show oneself crooked, crafty, perverse. (Gesenius, Lexicon). It cannot mean here that God would assume such a character, or that he would be crooked, crafty, perverse in his dealings with men, for no one can suppose that the psalmist meant to ascribe such a character to God; but the meaning plainly is, that God would deal with the man referred to according to his real character: instead of finding that God would deal with them as if they were pure, and righteous, and merciful, such men would find that he deals with them as they are - as perverse, crooked, wicked.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 18:26. With the froward — עקש ikkesh, the perverse man; he that is crooked in his tempers and ways.
Thou wilt show thyself froward. — תתפתל tithpattal, thou wilt set thyself to twist, twine, and wrestle. If he contend, thou wilt contend with him. Thou wilt follow him through all his windings; thou wilt trace him through all his crooked ways; untwist him in all his cunning wiles; and defeat all his schemes of stubbornness, fraud, overreaching, and deceit.
My old Psalter has, With the wiked thow sal be wike. Here the term wicked is taken in its true original sense, crooked, or perverse. With the wiked, the perverse, thou wilt show thyself wike, i.e., perverse; from [Anglo-Saxon], to draw back, to slide. As he draws back from thee, thou wilt draw back from him. It may, as before intimated, come from [A.S.], to seek for enchantments; leaving God, and going to devils; to act like a witch: but here it must mean as above. The plain import is, "If thou perversely oppose thy Maker, he will oppose thee: no work or project shall prosper that is not begun in his name, and conducted in his fear."
