2 Samuel 22:27
With the pure Thou shewest Thyself pure, And with the perverse Thou shewest Thyself a wrestler.
Young's Literal Translation
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 shewest Thyself kind, With the perfect man Thou shewest Thyself perfect,
28And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.
Cross References
Exodus 18:11now I have known that Jehovah [is] greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly — [He is] above them!'
Leviticus 26:24then I have walked — I also — with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins;
Psalms 18:26With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,
Isaiah 45:9Woe [to] him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, 'What dost thou?' And 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 →