Psalms 39:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Rhythmically and from every other reason the psalm onward from this verse must be treated as the utterance to which the poet’s feelings have at length driven him.

How frail I am. — This is to be preferred to the margin, which follows the LXX. and Vulg. The Hebrew word, from a root meaning to “leave off,” though in Isaiah 53:3 it means “forsaken,” here, as in Ezekiel 3:27, is active, and implies “ceasing to live.”

Psalms 39:4

4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.