Verse 8. The pen
of the scribes is in vain.] The deceitful pen of the scribes.
They have written falsely though they had the truth before them. It is too bold
an assertion to say that “the Jews have never falsified the sacred oracles;”
they have done it again and again. They have written facilities when they know
they were such. (Adam, Clarke, Clarke’s Commentary: A Classic Work—A Help to
a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings 6 vols. [Nashville: Abingdon
Press], 4:276-77)
