Psalms 50:8-13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, &c. This is not the principal matter of my charge against thee, that thou hast neglected sacrifices, which thou shouldest have offered; for, although thou hast often omitted thy duty even in that respect, yet I have greater things than these to charge thee with. I will take no bullock, &c. Be not so foolish as to imagine that thou dost lay any obligations upon me by thy sacrifices, or that I required them because I had need of them, or took any pleasure or satisfaction in them for their own sakes. Every beast of the forest is mine I could command or dispose of them at my pleasure, without thy leave or assistance; and the cattle, &c. Which feed upon innumerable hills, or in valleys and fields. I know all the fowls, &c. Where they are, and whence I could easily fetch them when I please; and not only tame and domestic fowls, but even such as are wild and fly up and down upon mountains; which, though out of man's reach, are at my command. If I were hungry If I wanted or desired any thing, which I do not, being the all-sufficient God; I would not tell thee That thou mightest supply my wants. For the world is mine, &c. And all those creatures wherewith it is replenished. Will I eat the flesh of bulls? If I did want any thing, hast thou such gross and carnal conceptions of me as to suppose that I need or delight in the blood of brute creatures?