of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

The highest confidence in God.
He is the foundation-rock (verses 2, 6, 7). We are to wait on Him (verses 5 and 1) as in Ps. XL. God is our glory, as conversely Man is His. God him-self is The Saviour (verses 7, I, 6). We are to trust in God at all times, therefore in everything. “In everything make known your requests unto God” (verse 8). God is the Source of Power (verses 7 and 11) as Christ said to Pilate—John XIX:11.

God being thus our Foundation, our Saviour, and our Source of Power, two results follow: first, that we should not trust in wrongdoing or in riches (verse 10), and, second, that we should expect all things from Him (verse 5) — having “ our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men” I Tim. IV: 10. God renders to every man according to his work (verse 12), seek and ye shall find, etc.
—cause and effect.

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