Verse 19
19. The joy of his way Deeply ironical. With a touch the poet discloses hidden deeps of misery and of doom.
Shall others grow אחר , another, used collectively. One crop of weeds is followed by another. The law of nature in the moral world is not the boasted law of science “the selection of the best;” for, without the hand of the tiller, the worse overpowers the better. The wheat soon succumbs before the tares. One generation of evil doers is followed by “another and another.” In the protracted struggle between good and evil, evil alone has power to perpetuate itself. It may never come to pass that a generation of the godly shall bring forth a like godly generation. Of the hundred generations that have already lived, each one has been evil. Dark is the mystery. The labourer for God, like the sower in the parable, must toil on against fearful odds, knowing that with each generation be must begin anew.
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