All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill, or thicket, have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive to each other’s note, Singing their great Creator? PAR. LOST, iv. [61] _Their glance alike surveys_ _The upright judgments and th’ unrighteous ways._] The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. PROVERBS, xv. 3. [62] _So rue the nations when their kings offend._] Theobald, in a note on Cooke’s translation, proposes to change δημος, _the people_, into τημος, _then_: and renders αποτιση in the sense of _punish_, instead of _rue_: thus the meaning would be, “that he might then, at that instant, punish the sins of the judges.” Never was an interference with the text so little called for. The meaning which Theobald is so scrupulous to admit is exactly conformable with that of a preceding passage: And oft the crimes of one destructive fall; The crimes of one are visited on all. It is idle to inquire where is the justice of this kind of retribution? since it is evident from all the history of mankind that such is the course of nature. By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted: but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. PROVERBS, xi. 11. The king by judgment establisheth the land; but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it. Ch. xxix. 4. In Simpson’s notes on Beaumont and Fletcher, this passage is compared with the following in Philaster: In whose name We’ll waken all the Gods, and conjure up The rods of vengeance, the abused people: and it is proposed to understand it in the sense of Fletcher, “that the people might be raised up to _punish_ the crimes of their prince.” There is taste and spirit in this interpretation, which cannot be said for the amendment of Theobald: but the common acceptation seems to me the right one, for the reasons already stated. [63] _Pours down the treasures of felicity._] In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked there is trouble. PROVERBS, xv. 6. The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. Ch. x. 3. The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot. Ch. x. 7. A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies shall perish. Ch. xix. 9. The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. Ch. x. 30. The inheritance of sinners’ children shall perish: and their posterity shall have a perpetual reproach. WISDOM OF JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH, xli. 6. Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men. PSALMS, xxi. 10.