The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.
Note, 1. The misery of sinners will be an eternal surfeit upon their sins: The backslider in heart, who for fear of suffering, or in hope of profit or pleasure, forsakes God and his duty, shall be filled with his own ways; God will give him enough of them.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways,.... One that is a backslider at heart, whose heart departeth from the Lord; in whom there is an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; and indeed apostasy begins at the heart, and shows itself in the life and conversation: there may be a backsliding when the heart does not wickedly...
filled . . . ways--receive retribution (Pro 1:31). a good man . . . himself--literally, "is away from such," will not associate with him.