“The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.”
The psalmist declares 'The mouths of the righteous utter wisdom, and their tongues speak what is just.' The emphasis on speech suggests that righteousness manifests through wise and just words. The attribution of wisdom and justice to the righteous' speech suggests that their words reflect God's truth. This verse establishes that righteousness includes not merely external conduct but virtuous speech.
Church Fathers on Psalms 37:30
On the first part of the psalm. 1. With terror do they hear of the coming of the last day, who will not be secure by living well: and who fain would live ill, long. But it was for useful purposes that God willed that day to remain unknown; that the heart may be ever ready to expect that of which it knows it is to come, but knows not when it is to come. Seeing, however, that our Lord Jesus Christ was sent to us to be our “Master,” He said, that “of the day not even the Son of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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