Verse 26
26. A wise king scattereth the wicked, etc. Conjectures are numerous as to the import of this verse. Some think it may refer to the scattering (sowing) of grain in the field, and afterwards rolling it in. So transgressors are scattered and crushed beneath the earth. Others think that it refers to the threshing of grain, which was sometimes done by cattle drawing a cart or other wheeled vehicle after them, thus crushing the stalks and separating the grain from the husks. So Patrick: “He despises them all, and threshes them so severely that the country is clean purged and pure from such wicked wretches.” As there is no record anywhere in the Bible of punishment by the wheel, it is probable that this passage is to be understood metaphorically of “the wheel” in threshing grain. Threshing and winnowing are elsewhere used as the symbols of punishment. Comp. Amos 1:3; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 28:29; Psalms 1:4.
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