5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)We are here led to think, I. Of the original of human life. God is indeed its great original, for he breathed into man the breath of life and in him we live; but we date it from our birth, and thence we must date both its frailty and its pollution. 1. Its frailty: Man, that is born of a woman, is therefore of few days , Job 14:1. This may refer to the first woman, who was called Eve , because she…
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