March 12, 2021 omanba
THOMAS SCOTT COMMENTARY
Verses 23-24. Lamech appears to have been either suspicious of his wives, or desirous of obviating their apprehensions for his safety. It seems plain that he was conscious of having many enemies, whose resentment he had provoked by injuries of one kind or other: whether, therefore, he speak affirmatively, and acknowledged that he had killed a man, though not his own brother; or interrogatively, “Have I killed a man to my hurt?” he evidently drew a comparison betwixt himself and his ancestor Cain, and flattered himself that he was much less criminal: while he seems to have abused the patience of God, in sparing Cain, into an encouragement to himself to expect impunity in sin, and to defy the vengeance of his adversaries.
THOMAS HAWEIS COMMENTARY
Verses 23-24: Lamech’s wickedness is further recorded.
1. His imperiousness. His wives hear his voice and tremble. Note, (1.) Those who marry, like Lamech, for lust, will seldom long speak the kind voice of love. (2.) The most rigorous exactor’s of others’ duty, are often the most flagrant neglectors of their own.
2. His ferocity. I have slain a man to my wounding, &c. I have done it, for the consequences; or, as sin in the margin, I would slay a man, that dared provoke or stand in my way, though I were wounded in the conflict. Bloody-minded men stick at nothing when their passions hurry them on: the accursed sin of dueling is Lamech’s spirit.
3. His presumptuous impiety. From Cain’s protection, he infers his own security, commit what crimes he would: thus wicked men wax worse and worse. Because God’s vengeance is not speedily executed, they harden themselves in the confidences of impunity: but though vengeance be slow, it is sure: their damnation slumbereth not. All we hear of Cain and his seed, is a continuance of evil; a bad beginning necessarily leads to a bad end.
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