Verse 9.— Therewith bless we God, even the Father. The tongue is used in offering our praises to the Most High. With it we thank God for his goodness and mercy; with it we utter the gratitude of our hearts to our loving Father in heaven for his manifold favors, for the gift of his Son, for the privilege and honor of becoming his children, and for the hope of eternal life, and yet with the same tongue we curse our fellowmen made in the image of God, the same God to whom we have offered our praises and thanksgiving, and made our supplications. This is a palpable inconsistency. Why it is inconsistent the inspired penman tells us in the succeeding verse, and yet to common intelli­gence it would seem unnecessary even to mention it.