Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
The instruments also of the churl are evil "As for the niggard, his instruments are evil" - His machinations, his designs. The paronomasia, which the prophet frequently deals in, suggested this expression vechelai kelaiv . The first word is expressed with some variety in the MSS. Seven MSS. read vekili , one vechol , another vecoli .
To destroy the poor with lying words "To defeat the assertions of the poor in judgment" - A word seems to have been lost here, and two others to have suffered a small alteration, which has made the sentence very obscure. The Septuagint have happily retained the rendering of the lost word, and restored the sentence in all its parts: · ulehapher dibrey ebyon bemishpat , "And disperse the words of the poor in judgment. "They frequently render the verb haphar by , A MS. reads uledabber , which gives authority for the preposition lamed , to, necessary to the sense, and the Septuagint, Syriac, and Chaldee read bemishpat , In judgment.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 32:7:
Isaiah 5:7
Isaiah 32:8
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