Salmos 107:17

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Los insensatos, á causa del camino de su rebelión Y á causa de sus maldades, fueron afligidos.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Por causa de sus caminos rebeldes, y por causa de sus iniquidades, los insensatos fueron afligidos.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Los insensatos, a causa del camino de su rebeli�n y a causa de sus maldades, fueron afligidos.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Los locos, a causa del camino de su rebeli�n; y a causa de sus maldades fueron afligidos,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Fools: This is the third comparison; the captives being compared to persons in a dangerous malady, as the consequences of their own sins. Psalms 14:1, Psalms 92:6, Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 7:7, Proverbs 7:22

because: Psalms 38:1-8, Numbers 11:33, Numbers 11:34, Numbers 12:10-13, Numbers 21:5-9, Isaiah 57:17, Isaiah 57:18, Jeremiah 2:19, Lamentations 3:39

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:12 - they obeyed not Job 5:2 - the foolish Job 33:20 - his life Psalms 30:2 - and Psalms 103:3 - healeth Isaiah 38:9 - writing Jeremiah 4:18 - Thy way Jeremiah 5:25 - General Micah 6:13 - I make Luke 5:20 - Man Luke 6:17 - to be

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Fools, because of their transgression,.... Or, "because of the way" h "of it"; their sinful course of life; for it is not for a single transgression they are afflicted, but for a continued series of sinning, which is a transgression of the law of God. By "fools" are meant not idiots, men devoid of common sense and natural understanding, but immoral persons; such who have no understanding of divine and spiritual things; are destitute of the fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom; without the true knowledge of God himself; place their happiness in sensual enjoyments; seek only the gratification of their lust; scoff at religion, make a mock at sin, and have no concern about a future state, and the welfare of their immortal souls.

And because of their iniquities, are afflicted; or "afflict themselves", or "find themselves afflicted" i; rather "bring affliction on themselves" k. Not that these are the only persons that are afflicted; for many truly wise, good, and gracious persons, have a large share of afflictions; though not in a way of punishment for sin, or in wrath and hot displeasure, but in a way of fatherly chastisement, and in love: nor are fools for the most part afflicted, nor so much as others; they are not in trouble and plagued as other men; which has been a stumbling to good men: however, sometimes they are afflicted in this life, and in a way of punishment for sin; and very often are but the more hardened by it; though to some it is an ordinance for good; they are awakened by it to a sense of sin, and acknowledgment of it, and to seek for pardoning grace and mercy. This is the "third" instance of persons in distress calling on the Lord, and finding relief l, and being under obligation to praise him.

h מדרך "propter viam", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator. i יתענו "sese adflictos sentiebant", Michaelis. k So Tigurine version. l "Flectitur iratus voce rogante Deus", Ovid. de Arte Amandi, l. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fools, because of their transgression - Wicked people, considered as fools, because they “are” transgressors. Compare Psalms 14:1, note; Psalms 73:3, note; Psalms 75:4, note. The immediate allusion here, probably, is to the Jews, who had been so wicked and so supremely foolish in violating the commands of God, and making it necessary to bring upon them as a punishment the captivity at Babylon; but the language is made general because it will with equal propriety describe the conduct of all wicked people. There is nothing more foolish than an act of wickedness; there is no wisdom equal to that of obeying God.

And because of their iniquities, are afflicted - A more literal rendering of this verse would be, “Fools from the way of their transgressions (that is, by their course of transgression), and by their iniquities, afflict themselves.” The idea is, that it is “in the very line” of their trangressions; or, that they “bring it upon themselves.” All punishment is in fact in the line of the offence; that is, sin leads directly to it; or, in other words, if a man treads along in the path of sin, he will come to this result - to punishment. Punishment is not arbitrary on the part of God, and it is not of the nature of a mere direct infliction from his “hand.” It is what people mete out to themselves, and what they might have avoided if they had chosen to do so.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 107:17. Fools because of their transgression — This is the THIRD comparison; the captivity being compared to a person in a dangerous malady. Our Version does not express this clause well: Fools מדרך פשעם midderech pisham, because of the way of their transgressions, are afflicted. Most human maladies are the fruits of sin; misery and sin are married together in bonds that can never be broken.