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13O spare me, that I may recover strength{H8686)}, before I go hence{H8799)}, and be no more.
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Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; …
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? …
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, …
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-13)The psalmist, having meditated on the shortness and uncertainty of life, and the vanity and vexation of spirit that attend all the comforts of life, here, in these verses, turns his eyes and heart heaven-ward. When there is no solid satisfaction to be had in the creature it is to be found in God, and in communion with him; and to him we should be driven by our disappointments in the world. David h…
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