Psalms 90:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

A thousand years, if we should now live so long, as some of our progenitors well nigh did. As he compared man's duration with God's in respect of its beginning, Psalms 90:2, so here he compareth them in respect of the end or continuance. In thy sight; in thy account, and therefore in truth; which is opposed to the partial and false judgment of men, who think time long because they do not understand eternity; or in comparison of thy endless duration. When it is past; which is emphatically added; because time seems long when it is to come, but when it is past, and men look backward upon it, it seems very short and contemptible, and men value one hour to come more than a thousand years which are past. A watch, which lasted but for three or four hours; for the night was anciently divided into three or four watches. See Judges 7:19 Mark 6:48, Mark 13:35 Luke 12:38. In the night; which also hath its weight; for the silence and slumbers of the night make time seem shorter than it doth in the day.

Psalms 90:4

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.