시편 7:16의 인용 해설

He means to say that you were killed because you killed someone else. And the one who killed you will be be killed in the future. The intent of this statement is that bad actions will return upon the head of their doers, as he stated (Proverbs 5:22), "The wicked man will be trapped in his iniquities." And he stated (Psalms 7:16), "He has dug a pit and deepened it, [etc.]." And the sages said (Sanhedrin 90a), "With the measure that a person measures, [so] is he measured." And it is something that is apparent to the eye at every moment and every time and every place that anyone who does evil and creates types of violence and vice is himself injured by those same evils that he created - since he taught the craft that would cause damage to him and to others. And so [too regarding] anyone who teaches a virtue [in] that he creates a good action from the good, a benefit of that action will reach him - since he taught a thing that will do good to him and to others. And the words about this in the verse are very good - he stated (Job 34:11), "For He pays a man his action."

On coveting he did not bring a verse because it is a precept of Reason (i.e. it can be derived from reason) and therefore does not need a proof [from Scripture]. Unlike revenge and bearing a grudge which are not precepts of Reason. On the contrary, the Understanding resists them, and dictates that it is proper to be crooked with the crooked, and to return his evil to his head (Ps. 7:16). Therefore, he brought verses to show they are decrees of the King.