These verses have been a stumbling block to successive generations of editors. One of the latest of these, for example, Dr. W. 0. E. Oesterley, has courageously faced the difficulties but, for reasons which will be stated in the course of this note, got himself tied up rather badly. He saw clearly enough that must refer to God's attitude to the Psalmist's enemy. But the difficulties began for him when he took to refer to the wicked man. In the first place Oesterley did not sufficiently reahze that the possibility of the wicked man repenting of his evil ways rarely occupied the mind of the Psalmist. It is in the Prophets that we get constant appeals to the wicked to repent, not in the Psalms. By the time of the Psalmists society had largely become stratified. The cleavage between the and the was complete. To the or the was irretrievably lost. God's clemency was only sought on behalf of the straying from the path of righteousness. I would therefore suggest that referred to God, at the same time altering to . The rendering would then be: “God is wroth every day; yea, he will not turn back.”