“Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.”
The psalmist advises 'Refrain from anger and forsake wrath; do not fret—it only leads to evil.' The emphasis on controlling anger and wrath suggests that witnessing injustice naturally generates these emotions. The warning that fretting leads to evil suggests that the anxiety over injustice can result in the adoption of the wicked's methods. This verse establishes emotional discipline as crucial to maintaining righteousness.
Church Fathers on Psalms 37:8
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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