Verse 3
3. Arrogance… Impudence Reference is here primarily to the haughty and impudent conduct of her adversary Peninnah, who had vexed her with taunting words. Chap. 1 Samuel 1:6. For (introducing the reason for the reproof just given) a God of knowledge is Jehovah The word rendered knowledge is in the plural דעות , knowledges, multifarious knowledge, indicating the fulness of the Divine wisdom.
With him In his mind; by him. The Hebrew text ( kethib) has לא , not, instead of לו , to or with him, ( keri,) but with that reading no tolerable sense can be made from the passage without too great a departure from the natural meaning of the words.
Actions are weighed The actions of men, whether they be good or evil. Therefore arrogance and impudence in thought and action should be stopped, and all men fear Jehovah. Some interpreters, with less propriety, say that the actions of God are here meant; thus: With him (his own) actions are established.
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