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47Remember{H8798)} how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made{H8804)} all men in vain?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. …
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 38-52)In these verses we have, I. A very melancholy complaint of the present deplorable state of David’s family, which the psalmist thinks hard to be reconciled to the covenant God made with David. “Thou saidst thou wouldst not take away thy lovingkindness, but thou hast cast off .” Sometimes, it is no easy thing to reconcile God’s providences with his promises, and yet we are sure they are reconcilable…
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