For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.
Ver. 6. For thou hast made him most blessed for ever] Heb. Thou hast set him to be blessings. For as the wicked, when destroyed by some horrible judgment, are examples to others of God's curse, Isaiah 65:15 Jeremiah 29:22 2 Peter 2:6 Iudaeus sim, si fallam, Let me be Judus if I lie, say the Turks at this day, when they would assure anything for a certainty; so the godly, when in a special manner blessed, are patterns of blessings to others, that in them they may bless themselves or others, Psalms 72:17; Psalms 128:4 Genesis 12:2; Gen 48:20 Rth 4:11-12 Psalms 37:26. So here they shall say, Tanto rerum successu polleas, quanto David, Mayest thou be as successful as ever David was.
Thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance] One good cast whereof David long since preferred before all the world's good, Psalms 4:6. See the note there.