“ Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. ”
Man is like to vanity - See the notes at Psalms 39:5-6 ; Psalms 62:9 . The idea here is, that man can be compared only with that which is utterly vain - which is emptiness - which is nothing....
CXLIV. Ascribed by LXX and also by T. to David against Goliath, but without any shadow of reason. Psalms 144:1-11 is really a mosaic chiefly taken from Psalms 18, but also from Psalms 8, 33, 1...
Man. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. Man is like to vanity - אדם להבל דמה Adam lahebel damah, literally, Adam is like to Abel, exposed to the same miseries, accidents,...
Lord, what it man, &c.?— This is spoken in rapture; reflecting on the regard that God had shewn to his petition, which, in his usual way, he repeats in the very words in the four next verses.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away. Man is like to vanity (Hebrew, hebel ( H1892 ), a vapour): his days are as a shadow that passeth away - ( Psalms 62:9...
This Ps. consists mainly of thoughts and quotations from earlier Pss., e.g. 8 and 18. Psalms 144:12-15 are, however, quite unlike anything else in the Psalter, and some suppose them to be a quotati...
Vanity... shadow. — See Psalms 39:5-6 ; Psalms 102:11 . The occasion of the introduction of these sentiments here is not quite clear. It may be the humility of the warrior who ascribes all succes...
Psalms 144:1-15 THE force of compilation could no further go than in this psalm, which is, in the first eleven verses ( Psalms 144:1-11 )simply a rechauffe of known psalms, and in Psalms 144:1...
God's People Are Happy Psalms 144:1-15 This psalm savors of the rocky caverns from which David and his men emerged to fight. Each day the chieftain asked God to teach him to fight, and realized...
This is a song of triumphant assurance. Its placing at this point in the book suggests the invincible experience of trusting souls. In order to appreciate all its value, the nine psalms immediately p...
These verses are as a clue enabling us to apply the whole to Christ. In proof, read Psalms 8:4 , explained by Hebrews 2:6 , to the end. To add any other comment would be to hold a lighted taper bef...
Man is like to vanity ,.... Is vanity itself, in every age, state, and condition; yea, in his best estate, Psalms 39:5 ; or, "to the breath" h of the mouth, as Kimchi; which is gone as soon as seen...
Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away. Ver. 4. Man is like to vanity ] See Psalms 39:6 ; Psalms 62:9 . Adam Abelo compar est, Adam is Abel's mate. His days are...
Lord, what is man He magnifies and illustrates God's goodness to him, by the consideration of his own meanness. Though I am a king over my people, yet, alas, I am but a man, a base, sinful; and mor...
Grateful Acknowledgments of Divine Goodness; Prayer for Success against Enemies. A psalm of David. 1 Blessed b...
Man is like, in his nature and continuance in the world, to vanity, or to a vapour or a breath , as Isaiah 57:13 , which is gone in an instant. That passeth away; or, that declineth, as P...
INTRODUCTION “This is a singularly composite Psalm. The earlier portion of it, to the end of Psalms 144:11 , consists almost entirely of a cento of quotations, strung together from earlier Psalms;...
A Psalm of David. No doubt written after some great victory, and also before another severe struggle. The Christian man seldom escapes from one difficulty without falling into another. Thanks be unto...
This, and the six following psalms, are all eucharistical, and seem to have been composed when David's sorrows were changed to joys. He here praises God for past mercies, and asks grace for the futur...
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. The Lord teaching us to fight I do not know what that “Book of the Wars of the Lord” was which is refer...
EXPOSITION A PSALM in which praise and prayer are commingled. Almost certainly Davidic: 1. From the title. 2. From the style. 3. From the way in which David is mentioned in Psalms...
Thanksgiving and Prayer for Deliverance. A psalm of David, in which he praises God for help experienced in the past and confidently implores His assistance against the enemies of the nation, as we...
1 Chronicles 29:15 ; 2 Samuel 14:14 ; Ecclesiastes 1:14 ; Ecclesiastes 1:2 ; Ecclesiastes 12:8 ; Ecclesiastes 8:13 ; Job 14:1-3 ; Job 4:19 ; Job 8:9 ; Psalms 39:5 ; Psalms 39:6 ; Psalms 6...