Salmos 37
Diodorus of Tarsus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Salmos 37:1
Being human, we are all irked by the prosperity of the affluent, especially when they are dishonest. So from the outset he immediately gives this exhortation: Do not imitate evildoers, even if they are rich, nor lawbreakers, even if from their wickedness they amass wealth. Why not? Because … though flourishing for a time, such people have a rapid end. He did well to compare them with flowers: they also delight the eye for a time but are unable to bear the heat and dry up at once. — COMMENTARY ON PSALM 37
Salmos 37:5
Be sincere in pursuing good, not pretending to be honest while being evil; instead, be good openly and as it were without disguise so that God may openly repay you with good. — COMMENTARY ON PSALM 37
Salmos 37:10
The wicked not only grows rich but even plots against the righteous, God's permission causing both developments to go ahead; but let it not alarm you. God in his foreknowledge [is] aware of the fate of the wicked and [sees] the righteous person's endurance.… God looks ahead to [the wicked person's] fate and mocks his threats and his frenzy, aware as he is of the future. Thus in many cases when the wicked think they have gotten the better of the righteous, then it is that sudden ruin overtakes them when unexpected punishment is inflicted on them by God. — COMMENTARY ON PSALM 37
Salmos 37:18
"Knows" means makes his own, as in the first psalm, "Because the Lord knows the ways of the righteous," that is, makes them his own. — COMMENTARY ON PSALM 37