1. The confidence of an unfaithful man (so some read it) will be like a
broken tooth; his policy, his power, his interest, all that which he
trusted in to support him in his wickedness, will fail him in time of
trouble, Ps. lii. 7. 2. Confidence in an unfaithful man (so we read
it), in a man whom we thought trusty and therefore depended on, but who
proves otherwise; it proves not only unserviceable, but painful and
vexatious, like a broken tooth, or a foot out of joint, which, when we
put any stress upon it, not only fails us, but makes us feel from it,
especially in time of trouble, when we most expect help from it; it is
like a broken reed, Isa. xxxvi. 6. Confidence in a faithful God, in
time of trouble, will not prove thus; on him we may rest and in him
dwell at ease.