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VERS. 5. — Simplici corde b meo sermones mei, et sententiam puram labia mea loquentur. 17. De simplicitate falso gloriantur. - Magnæ virtutis laos est simplicitas locutionis. Quam quia arrogantes non habent, habere se hanc sollicitius asserunt, ut securius audiantur. Et pure se locuturos denuntiant, quan duplicitatis suæ malitiam deprehendi formidant. Saepe autem et falsis vera permiscent, ut inde eorum mendacio citius credatur, unde inesse eis assertio veritatis agnoscitur. Quia Igitur Eliu et pure se locuturum perhibuit, et dicta sua appellando sententias favore praecucurrit, eamdein jam sententiam quam promisit adjungit, dicens:
VERSE 5. — 'My words shall be from a simple heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.' 17. They falsely glory in simplicity. — Simplicity of speech is the praise of great virtue. Because the arrogant do not possess it, they the more anxiously assert that they do have it, so that they may be heard the more securely. And they declare that they will speak purely, because they dread lest the malice of their duplicity be detected. But often they mingle truths with falsehoods, so that their lie may be believed the more readily, since the assertion of truth is recognized to be present in it. Since therefore Elihu both professed that he would speak purely, and, by calling his words 'sentences,' won favour in advance, he now adds that very sentence which he promised, saying:
第五節。——「我的言語出於我單純的心，我的嘴唇要說純潔的判語。」17. 他們虛假地誇口單純。——言語的單純是大德的稱譽。因為傲慢者沒有它，便愈發焦急地聲稱自己擁有它，好使人更放心地聽他們。他們宣稱自己要說純潔的話，因為他們害怕自己兩面的惡意被人識破。但他們往往把真理與虛假混雜，好使他們的謊言更快被人相信，因為人在其中認出有真理的斷言存在。因此以利戶既聲稱要說純潔的話，又藉著稱自己的話為「判語」而先博取好感，如今便加上他所應許的那判語，說：