When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Ver. 13. When I say, My bed shall comfort me] The bed was the most proper and probable means of refreshment; but it is not the bed that can give sleep, nor the couch ease. Creatures are not able of themselves to give out the comforts committed to them; their common nature must be assisted with a special word of blessing, or else they do us no good: man liveth not by bread only, &c. God maketh the merciful man's bed, Psalms 41:3. So he giveth his beloved sleep, quiet sleep (Shena with an Aleph quiescent), Psa 127:2 He is the God of all mercies, and the Father of all consolation, 2 Corinthians 1:3. It is he that shines through the creature, which else is but as the air, without light. Look how the air lights us not without the sun; and fuel heats us not without fire; so neither can any man or means comfort or content us without God.
My couch shall ease my complaint] Heb. Shall lift up, or take away, viz. the burden of my cares and grief; some part of my load at least; but it happened otherwise: for - see next verse