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Psalms 73:18

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places,.... In which a man cannot stand long, and without danger; and the higher they are the more dangerous, being slippery, and such are places of honour and riches.

The phrase denotes the uncertainty and instability of these things, and the danger men are in who are possessed of them of falling into destruction and misery.

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