The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; [and] he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
Ver. 2. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive] Life in any sense is a singular mercy. "Why is a living man sorrowful?" Lamentations 3:39; if he be alive, though afflicted, he hath cause to be thankful; how much more if alive to righteousness! The Arabic here interpreteth it, dabit illi filios in quibus post mortem vivat, he will give him children, in whom he may live after his death.
And he shall be blessed upon the earth] With wealth, and other accommodations; so that the world shall look upon him as every way blessed.
And thou wilt not deliver him into the hands of his enemies] Heb. Do not thou deliver him. This maketh Kimchi conclude, that all this is but oratio visitantis consolatoria, the prayer of him that visiteth the sick man, for his comfort.