2 Samuel 22:27
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.
In Context
26To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;
28You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
Cross References
Exodus 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”
Leviticus 26:24then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
Psalms 18:26to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
Isaiah 45:9Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has 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 →