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Excerpt from Lectures on the Book of Proverbs "The doing, or executing of judgment is joy to the just, but destruction to the workers of iniquity." The just, when judgment is done, have no cause to fear: - it comes not upon them: "only with their eyes they behold, and see the reward of the wicked;" and they experience "joy," when it is just judgment that is executed, inasmuch as it promotes the safety and the happiness of society. And the "doing of judgment" by the Judge of all, which is ever according to perfect rectitude, is "joy to the just," as it brings glory to His name, and clears the moral universe of temptation and misery. But to "the workers of iniquity," the execution of judgment is anything but "joy." It is destruction; and the thought and anticipation of it, whether from man or from God, can engender only distress and fear. And the day of final judgment, while it shall be a day of "joy" to the just, will be the day of complete and irremediable destruction to the wicked. Verse 16. "The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead." - While the preceding verse has reference to the "workers of iniquity" generally, and represents the execution of judgment as their "destruction;" this verse relates apparently to apostates from the right way - "the way of understanding;" those who for a time have walked in that way, under a profession of religion, and have abandoned it. Such there have been in every age; and of such it is here said, "they shall remain in the congregation of the dead." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.