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73JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
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I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. …
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.
Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.
But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 73)Here, 1. David adores God as the God of nature and the author of his being: Thy hands have made me and fashioned me , Job 10:8. Every man is as truly the work of God’s hands as the first man was, Ps. 139:15 , 16 . “ Thy hands have not only made me , and given me a being, otherwise I should never have been, but fashioned me , and given me this being, this noble and excellent being, endued with thes…
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