Psalms 40:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Psalms 40:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 17:7-8
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. …
Psalms 84:11-12
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. …
Psalms 34:8
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Psalms 125:5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
Psalms 118:8-9
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

In these verses we have, I. The great distress and trouble that the psalmist had been in. He had been plunged into a horrible pit and into miry clay (Ps. 40:2), out of which he could not work himself, and in which he found himself sinking yet further. He says nothing here either of the sickness of his body or the insults of his enemies, and therefore we have reason to think it was some inward disq…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. Blessed--(Psa 1:1; 2:12). respecteth--literally, “turns towards,” as an object of confidence. turn aside--from true God and His law to falsehood in worship and conduct.