Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 29:19

19 And it come to pass when he heareth the words of this curse , that he bless himself in his heart , saying, I shall have peace , though I walk in the imagination of mine heart , to add drunkenness to thirst :

(i. e.) That root, or that man mentioned, v. 18.

(i. e.) of that oath mentioned v. 12. wherein he swore that he would keep covenant with God, and that with a curse pronounced against himself if he did not perform it. Now if when he reads this again, or hears of it from others.

(i. e.) Flatter himself in his own eyes, as Psal. 36. 2. with vain conceits and hopes, as if God did not mind such things, and either could not, or would not punish them. Compare Psal. 49. 18. Ier. 2. 20. Zech. 11. 5.

(i. e.) Safety and prosperity.

Though in my practices and worship I do not follow Gods command, but my own devices, and whatsoever my fancy best liketh, minding nothing but the gratifying of mine own fancy and humour.

(i. e.) Not onely to satisfie his thirst, i. e. his concupiscence and inclination to wickedness, but even to exceed it, as Drunkards oft times take more than their appetite desires, and drink out of meer wantonness, or from a desire to be drunk; and as filthy persons commit lewdness with others more than their natural inclinations desire, or their strength can well bear, meerly from a wicked mind, and from contempt of God, and because they will do so. The words may be rendred, to add thirst to drunkenness, the particle eth, which is a note of the Accusative Case, being joyned with thirst, and not with drunkenness, and so the sence may be this, that when he hath multiplyed his sins, and made himself as it were drunk with them, yet he is not satisfyed therewith, but still whets his Appetite, and provokes his thirst after more, as Drunkards commonly will use means and temptations to make themselves thirst after more drink, that they may drink more abundantly. Or thus, to add the moist or moistening to the thirsty, (i. e.) in stead of restraining and mortifying, as he ought to do, fully and greedily to satisfy, his idolatrous or wicked inclinations, and resolvedly to give up himself to all the desires of his own heart. Compare Iob 34. 7. Prov. 23. 35. Isa. 30. 1. and 56. 12. Eph. 4. 19.

Marginal references: Heb. stubborn [illegible: 1+ letters].; Heb. The drunken to the thirsty.