My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
My soul (waiteth) for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning; (I say more than) they that watch for the morning - `more than watchmen,' who, keeping watch all night, look forward with eagerness Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me - literally, 'neither do I walk in great matters;' i:e., in an ambitious course of life (Psalms 1:1). "Too high" - literally, 'too wonderful for me;' above my sphere and my powers (Psalms 139:6). Job had once done so; but when taught by affliction he ceased to 'utter things too wonderful for him, which he knew not' (Job 42:3). The true way to be great is (as the Lord told Baruch, Jeremiah 45:5) not to 'seek great things for ourselves' now.