A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
Psalm 92:6 belongs to a song for the Sabbath day that praises God's wonderful power and celebrates the greatness and depth of His works and thoughts. The psalm is likely from the time of the Babylonian captivity, when the Hebrew captives suffered persecution and distress, and like other psalms of that time it gives exhortation, encouragement, assurance of divine help, and hope of final deliverance from persecutors. A brutish man and a fool do not know or understand the deep thoughts and the greatness and depth of God's works, and only the brutish and foolish fail in this way. That failure to understand comes from not considering God's works and not properly valuing them.
What is not recognized is God Himself through the works of His hands and through creation and nature, which reveal His existence, power, eternal power, and divine character, and which make the truth so plain that denial leaves a person without excuse. The failure also misses God's love as well as His power in creation, whereas faith understands, as in Hebrews 11:3, that God framed the worlds by His word. Not recognizing God's works leads to denying that God exists and to speaking and acting as though there were no God. Because of this blindness, a person cannot see the importance of keeping the Sabbath or heed the practical truths of God's word, since Sabbath observance requires spiritual service and not merely outward observance.
By contrast, the Sabbath invites continual contemplation of a creation so vast it cannot be fathomed, and seeing its depth leads to reverence for God and to gladness and triumph in His works and reliance on His help to overcome. The fool also fails to recognize that the wicked may flourish only to be cut down, while the Lord remains exalted forever; Babylon's apparent strength and Nebuchadnezzar's belief that his kingdom would endure illustrate this blindness, showing that kingdoms opposed to God's principles cannot last, a lesson the record of history teaches people in every age for understanding God's purposes.
Psalm 92:6 belongs to a song for the Sabbath day that praises God's wonderful power and celebrates the greatness and depth of His works and thoughts. The psalm is likely from the time of the Babylonian captivity, when the Hebrew captives suffered persecution and distress, and like other psalms of that time it gives exhortation, encouragement, assurance of divine help, and hope of final deliverance from persecutors. A brutish man and a fool do not know or understand the deep thoughts and the greatness and depth of God's works, and only the brutish and foolish fail in this way. That failure to understand comes from not considering God's works and not properly valuing them.
What is not recognized is God Himself through the works of His hands and through creation and nature, which reveal His existence, power, eternal power, and divine character, and which make the truth so plain that denial leaves a person without excuse. The failure also misses God's love as well as His power in creation, whereas faith understands, as in Hebrews 11:3, that God framed the worlds by His word. Not recognizing God's works leads to denying that God exists and to speaking and acting as though there were no God. Because of this blindness, a person cannot see the importance of keeping the Sabbath or heed the practical truths of God's word, since Sabbath observance requires spiritual service and not merely outward observance.
By contrast, the Sabbath invites continual contemplation of a creation so vast it cannot be fathomed, and seeing its depth leads to reverence for God and to gladness and triumph in His works and reliance on His help to overcome. The fool also fails to recognize that the wicked may flourish only to be cut down, while the Lord remains exalted forever; Babylon's apparent strength and Nebuchadnezzar's belief that his kingdom would endure illustrate this blindness, showing that kingdoms opposed to God's principles cannot last, a lesson the record of history teaches people in every age for understanding God's purposes.