For thou hast maintained my judgment and my cause: thou hast sat on the throne, who judgest justice.
Radak
His ways are grievous – (יחילו may be explained) from the significance of חיל in “pain (חיל) as of a woman in travail” (Ps. 48:7). He says: that the evil ways of the wicked cause pangs to the poor. always: – for all the while he is in the world they are afraid of him. O Exalted One, Thy judgments are out of his sight: מרום (Exalted) is a vocative addressed to God – Blessed be He! He says: For Thou, O Lord, Exalted One, Thy judgments are out of his sight and do not touch him, therefore he is boastful. All his adversaries: – i.e. the poor. he puffeth at them: – They are as a puff of breath before him. Or it (יפיח) may be interpreted from the meaning (of פח) a trap and a snare: as if to say that he sets a trap among them to take them. And so “they bring a city into a snare (יפיחו)” (Prov. 29:8).
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
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