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This is a fact that may be accounted for on moral grounds. Conscience is the tormentor of the bad man.

1. Then the finest faculties of men may become terrible scourges.

2. Then no dependence is to be placed on the wicked in the time of danger.

3. Then the wicked are always making fools of themselves.

4. Then the wicked cannot bear the judgment of man; how can they endure the vengeance of God?

5. Then man may come to be regarded as the enemy of man.

(J. Parker, D.D.)

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KJV: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.

WEB: The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.