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<p>1. The <i>confidence of an unfaithful man</i> (so some read it) will be <i>like a broken tooth</i>; 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, <a class="bibleref" title="Ps.52.7" href="/passage/?search=Ps.52.7">Ps. 52:7</a>. 2. <i>Confidence in an unfaithful man</i> (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 <i>broken tooth, or a foot out of joint</i>, which, when we put any stress upon it, not only fails us, but makes us feel from it, especially <i>in time of trouble</i>, when we most expect help from it; it is like a broken reed, <a class="bibleref" title="Isa.36.6" href="/passage/?search=Isa.36.6">Isa. 36:6</a>. Confidence in a faithful God, in time of trouble, will not prove thus; on him we may rest and in him dwell at ease.</p>
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