Psalms 4:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. Thou hast put gladness in my heart - Thou hast given my soul what it wanted and wished for. I find now a happiness which earthly things could not produce. I have peace of conscience, and joy in the Holy Ghost; such inward happiness as they cannot boast who have got the highest increase of corn and wine; those Two Things in the abundance of which many suppose happiness to be found.

To corn and wine all the versions, except the Chaldee, add oil; for corn, wine, and oil, were considered the highest blessings of a temporal kind that man could possess.

Psalms 4:7

7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.