“Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.”
So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted—the collapse of legal and moral order shows the practical consequences of apparent divine non-intervention. The wicked's encirclement of the righteous depicts a complete reversal of expected justice; the guilty prosper while the innocent suffer. This verse illustrates the observable world's apparent contradiction to God's character as revealed in covenant and law.
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