Verse 6
6. Rejoiceth… iniquity The word rendered iniquity, properly signifies injustice, wrong. And here, as in all the clauses of this paragraph, we must keep the special person or persons loved in mind, and not rise too far into generality. Love sympathizes not in the wrong-doing committed by its object. This, the true and a most important sense, seems to have been lost sight of by the commentators. While love imputes the most favourable construction possible to its object, it does not rejoice in his real wrong doing.
Rejoiceth in the truth Instead of rejoicing in the wrong, it sympathetically rejoices in the truth by which the wrong is reproved, exposed, and corrected. It plainly tells the corrective truth to the loved wrongdoer, as Nathan did to David.
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