him: i.e. the "first man", Adam (Genesis 1:26).
dominion, &c. This he lost in the Fall.
works. Some codices, with three early printed editions and Syriac, read "work" (singular)
hands. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
hast. didst. See Genesis 1:26.
all things. Six are enumerated in Psalms 8:7 and Psalms 8:8. (The number of man. See App-10.)
To the chief Musician. See App-64.
upon Muth-labben. relating to the death of the champion (Goliath). Compare 1 Samuel 17:4; 1 Samuel 17:46, &c, and 144, which has, in the Septuagint,