Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 119:155
Salvation [is] far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
155. seek not ] Or, study not. Cp. Psa 119:45 ; Psa 119:94.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Salvation is far from the wicked – That is,
(a) in their present course: they are very far from being safe, or from having a prospect of salvation;
(b) they are constantly going farther and farther off – making their salvation less probable – not going toward heaven, but from it.
(c) Destruction is very near to them, and they are constantly making it nearer and nearer.
(d) In their present course it may be said that salvation is far – is infinitely remote – from them, so that they can never come to it.
(e) If they would be saved, they must change their course altogether, and go toward salvation and not from it.
For they seek not thy statutes – They do not regard thy law; they do not make it a principle to obey thy commandments.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 155. Salvation is far from the wicked] There is no hope of their conversion.
For they seek not thy statutes.] And they who do not seek, shall not find.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
And therefore, on the contrary, I trust that thou wilt save me because I do seek them. My wicked enemies shall certainly be destroyed, by which means I shall be delivered.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
153-155. Though the rememberingof God’s law is not meritorious, yet it evinces a filial temper andprovides the pious with promises to plead, while the wicked inneglecting His law, reject God and despise His promises (comparePsa 9:13; Psa 43:1;Psa 69:18).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Salvation [is] far from the wicked,…. Christ, the author of salvation, is far from them: he was far from the unbelieving Jews, even though salvation was of them, and he, the Saviour, was among them; and he is far from all unconverted persons, as to knowledge of him, faith in him, or love to him; and from all those that seek for salvation elsewhere, let them make ever such pretences to religion: the word of salvation is far from them, as Kimchi; the Gospel of salvation, which they put away from them, as the Jews did in the times of Christ and the apostles; an experimental knowledge of salvation, a sense of need of it, and an application of it, are far from them; and the enjoyment of it in heaven, which, though nearer the saints than when they first believed, is far off from the wicked, and whose damnation is near: Aben Ezra interprets it,
“the days of salvation;”
for they seek not thy statutes; either to know them, or keep them: they seek not after God, to know him, his mind and will; the language of their hearts and actions is, “depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways”; no, not of life and salvation, and therefore it must be far from them, Job 21:14.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
155 Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
Here is, 1. The description of wicked men. They do not only do God’s statutes, but they do not so much as seek them; they do not acquaint themselves with them, nor so much as desire to know their duty, nor in the least endeavour to do it. Those are wicked indeed who do not think the law of God worth enquiring after, but are altogether regardless of it, being resolved to live at large and to walk in the way of their heart. 2. Their doom: Salvation is far from them. They cannot upon any good grounds promise themselves temporal deliverance. Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. How can those expect to seek God’s favour with success, when they are in adversity, who never sought his statutes when they were in prosperity? But eternal salvation is certainly far from them. They flatter themselves with a conceit that it is near, and that they are going to heaven; but they are mistaken: it is far from them. They thrust it from them by thrusting the Saviour from them; it is so far from them that they cannot reach it, and the longer they persist in sin the further it is; nay, while salvation is far from them, damnation is near; it slumbers not. Behold, the Judge stands before the door.
Fuente: Matthew Henry’s Whole Bible Commentary
155 Safety is far from the wicked. Fully persuaded that the world is governed by the secret providence of God, who is a just judge, the Prophet draws from that source the doctrine, That the wicked are far removed from safety, and safety from them. Hence proceeds the confidence of prayer; for as God is turned away from the despisers of his word, so he is ready to succor his servants. It is to be noticed, that when the Prophet saw that his enemies were elated by their prosperity, he on the contrary lifted up his heart by faith that thus he might come to the settled persuasion that all their delights were cursed and tended to destruction. Whenever then the wicked prosper in the world according to their wishes, so that being pampered to the full they exult in their own fatness, let us learn, in order to defend ourselves, to lay hold upon this buckler which the Holy Spirit is holding out to us, namely, that they shall at length miserably perish, because they seek not the commandments of God. From this we draw a contrary doctrine, That although genuine believers, whilst they walk sincerely in the fear of God may be as sheep appointed to the slaughter, yet their salvation, which is under the special care and protection of God’s secret providence, is just at hand. In this sense the Prophet adds in the following verse,
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Psa 119:155 Salvation [is] far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
Ver. 155. Salvation is far from the wicked ] How can it be otherwise? when as God is neither in their heads, Psa 10:4 , nor hearts, Psa 14:1 , nor words, Psa 12:4 , nor ways, Tit 1:16 , can these have part or portion in his salvation?
For they seek not
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Salvation: Psa 18:27, Job 5:4, Isa 46:12, Isa 57:19, Eph 2:17, Eph 2:18
for they: Psa 10:4, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Pro 1:7, Luk 16:24, Rom 3:11
Reciprocal: Psa 73:27 – lo Psa 85:9 – Surely Isa 59:11 – for salvation Jer 44:23 – nor in his statutes Lam 3:17 – thou
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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Psa 119:155. Salvation Which is nigh to the faithful, because they diligently and earnestly seek to know and do the will of God, revealed to them in his word; is far from the wicked They cannot, upon any good grounds, promise themselves even temporal deliverance, when they are in any adversity or trouble, but certainly eternal salvation is far from them. They may, indeed, flatter themselves that it is near, or that they are in the way to it; but they are dreadfully mistaken. It is at a great distance, for they thrust it from them, by thrusting the Saviour from them, and his statutes, to know, and much more, to practise which, they give themselves no concern; and the longer they persist in sin, at the greater distance it is. But, while salvation is far from them, damnation is near; it slumbers not: for, behold, the Judge standeth before the door.