Verse 4.—'For thou hast said, My speech is pure, and I am clean in thy sight.' 4. The depraved refuse to weep for the true evils in themselves, and impute false ones to others.—Whoever remembers the words of blessed Job recognizes how falsely this is imputed to his utterance. For how could he say himself clean, who said: 'If I would justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me' (Job ix, 20)? But the malice of the depraved has this property, that when it refuses to weep for the true evils in itself, it feigns others belonging to another. For it uses as it were a solace of its crime, if by false accusations even the life of the one correcting be defiled. But it must be known that the perverse very often verbally wish for good things, that they may show those to be evil which are held among present things;