2 Samuel 22:27

With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt wage a contest.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

In Context

26With the kind thou wilt show thyself kind; with the upright mighty man thou wilt show thyself upright.

28And the afflicted people thou wilt save; but thy eyes are upon the haughty, [that] thou mayest bring [them] down.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:11Now I know that the Eternal is great above all gods; for by the very thing wherein they sinned presumptuously was punishment brought upon them.

Leviticus 26:24Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and I also will punish you, sevenfold for your sins.

Psalms 18:26(18:27) With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt wage a contest.

Isaiah 45:9Woe unto him that contendeth with the one who formed him—a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 22:3-51

David's Song of Praise. ( b. c. 1020.) 1 And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul: Observe here, I. That it has often been the lot of God's people to have many enemies, and to be in imminent danger of falling into their hands. David was a man after God's heart, but not after men's heart: many were those that hated him, and sought his ruin; Saul is particularly named, either, 1. As distinguished… Read the whole commentary →

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