Some were fools through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
Human affairs are not ruled by blind fortune but by God's judgments in all the changes and chances of this world. Adversity, shipwreck, famine, disease, war, marks His displeasure summoning us to account for our sins; prosperity flows from His grace so He may receive the praise due a merciful Father and impartial Judge.
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Commenting on Psalm 107:1-43
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted. Many sicknesses are the direct result of foolish acts. Thoughtless and lustful men by drunkenness, gluttony, and the indulgence of their passions fill their bodies with diseases of the worst kind.
Sin is the root of sickness: fools bring affliction upon themselves through transgression and folly. Those who doted most on perishable meat, when sickness comes, nauseate it; what they took too much of they can take nothing of. The appetite gone, life itself hangs by a thread at death's gate.
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Commenting on Psalm 107:17-22