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12So teach{H8685)} us to number{H8800)} our days, that we may apply{H8686)} our hearts unto wisdom.
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Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. …
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)These are the petitions of this prayer, grounded upon the foregoing meditations and acknowledgments. Isa. any afflicted? Let him learn thus to pray . Four things they are here directed to pray for:— I. For a sanctified use of the sad dispensation they were now under. Being condemned to have our days shortened, “ Lord, teach us to number our days (Ps. 90:12); Lord, give us grace duly to consider ho…
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