GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant, [that] I may live, and keep thy word.
Ver. 17. Deal bountifully with thy servant] Per indebitam gratiam retribue. Of thy free grace confer good upon me; and that not scantily, or niggardly, but liberally, and like thyself. The word sometimes signifieth to repay, to recompense; but therehence to infer matter of merit, on man's part, is too sandy a foundation for such a lofty Babel.
That I may live] Who am in deaths often; and that I may comfortably subsist in the feeling of thy favour, as 1 Samuel 25:6 .
And keep thy word] For which end only I desire life. See the like, Psalms 118:17. Non aliter petit vitam, quam ut praestet se fidelem Dei cultorem, saith Arnobius. David doth no otherwise desire life, than for this, that he may faithfully serve God. Non peto vitam propter delicias mundi (Kimchi).