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Zenith wrote:


--- Quote ---First off, you've put from yourself in Psalm 139 "G-d's spirit of anger". It is not in the text. I am certain that in the Psalm 139 it is not spoken about "G-d's anger" - read the psalm and see that in it David glorifies G-d rather than saying "I obey you out of fear because your anger if everywhere!"
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As  Kahane-Was-Right BT already pointed out, Metzudat Dovid is not translating ruach as spirit, but uses the term in the same way it is used in Shmot/Exodus 15:8 and Iyov/Job 4:9
As far as your second problem, why would a righteous person like the author of Psalms 139 talk about serving G-d out of fear, which you assume is too low a level for the psalmist.
To answer on behalf of Metzudat Dovid, one could say he is following the style of Psalms chapter 50 in particular verses 12 and 13 where the Psalmist shows how irrational are the claims of the Yetzer Hara, (the inclination to do evil).
Here too, in Tehillim/Psalms 139 the psalmist is showing that the claims of the Yetzer Hara are irrational.

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