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4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. …
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Here, I. David acknowledges his dependence upon God and his obligations to him, Ps. 144:1 , 2 . A prayer for further mercy is fitly begun with a thanksgiving for former mercy; and when we are waiting upon God to bless us we should stir up ourselves to bless him. He gives to God the glory of two things:— 1. What he was to him: Blessed be the Lord my rock (Ps. 144:1), my goodness, my fortress , Ps.…
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