Verse 18
18. The lot… cease Some read this in connexion with the preceding verse, and think that it justifies and perhaps it does the use of the lot in some legal cases, as well as in others. The use of the lot is not prohibited in the Scriptures when employed on proper occasions and with proper motives. Its use is even enjoined in some cases, and holy men have practised it. But it should not be used superstitiously, nor in order to “tempt God,” as the Scriptures say; nor when there are natural means of knowing what needs to be known, as by the use of our reason and the teachings of science and religion. God cannot be expected to dispose the lot to meet the demands of folly, wickedness, or superstition.
Parteth between the mighty Settles a dispute between strong men, which might otherwise lead to blows or war. Instead of the lot in the first clause, the Septuagint has, singularly enough, “the silent man!”
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