Psalms 56:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

In God. — This verse, which forms the refrain (Psalms 56:11-12 are wrongly separated), is as it stands hardly intelligible, and the text is rendered suspicious by the fact that the LXX. read “my words,” instead of “his word,” and by the omission of the suffix altogether in Psalms 56:11, where the first clause of the refrain is doubled. The obvious treatment of the verse is to take the construction as in Psalms 44:8, “I praise God with my word,” i.e., in spite of all my enemies I find words to praise God.

I will not. — Rather, I fear not What can flesh do?

Psalms 56:4

4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.