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12What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
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For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: …
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-22)David, in this latter part of the psalm, undertakes to teach children. Though a man of war, and anointed to be king, he did not think it below him; though now he had his head so full of cares and his hands of business, yet he could find heart and time to give good counsel to young people, from his own experience. It does not appear that he had now any children of his own, at least any that were gr…
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