Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease,.... That are in easy and affluent circumstances; abound in the things of this world, and have more than heart can wish; have no outward trouble, as other men, or as the saints have; nor any uneasiness of mind, on account of sin and their eternal state: they have been at ease from their youth; Satan, that has the possession of them, keeps the goods in peace; and their consciences are seared as with a red hot iron, and they are past feeling; though they are far from having any true solid peace of mind: and such persons are generally scorners of the saints, and load them with their gibes and jeers in a most insolent manner; which makes it very irksome and grievous to bear;[and] with the contempt of the proud: who are proud of their natural abilities; of their wealth and riches, and of their honours and high places: and such are generally scorners, and deal in proud wrath; and, through their pride, persecute the poor saints with their reproaches, and by other ways; see Pr 21:24.
Some understand by these characters, "that are at ease", or "quiet" , and are "proud", or "excellent" , as the phrases may be rendered, such described by them as are the objects, and not the authors, of scorn and contempt; even the saints, who are the quiet in the land, and the excellent in the earth; those precious sons of Zion, who are disesteemed by the men of the world, Ps 35:20.
Mynnavh "pacatorum", Montanus; "tranquillorum", Piscator, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis. Mynwyag "excellentium", Hammond; a rad. hag "eminuit", Gejerus; so an eminent Rabbi with the Jews is called "Gaon", as R.
Saadiah Gaon, &c.