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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 39 To the chief Musician, [even] to Jeduthun, a Psalm of David. Some take Jeduthun to be the name of a musical instrument, as Jarchi, on which, and others the first word of a song, to the tune of which, this psalm was sung, as Aben Ezra; though it seems best, with Kimchi and others, to understand it as the name of the chief musician, to whom this psalm was sent to be made...
John Gill
Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth,.... These words, with the following clause, are the psalmist's answer to his own inquiries; or rather a correction of his inquiry and impatience, showing how needless it was to ask such questions, and be impatient to die, when it was so clear and certain a case that life was so short; not a yard or ell (forty five inches), but an handbreadth,...
Matthew Henry
David seems to have been in a great strait when he penned this psalm, and, upon some account or other, very uneasy; for it is with some difficulty that he conquers his passion, and composes his spirit himself to take that good counsel which he had given to others (xxxvii.) to rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him, without fretting; for it is easier to give the good advice than to give the...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; That is, the breadth of your four fingers; all the length of life is to he measured by a span.
Charles H. Spurgeon
And mine age is as nothing before thee: All that exists is as nothing before God. What are even the elder-born of angels but the infants of an hour in contrast with the ages of eternity? The world itself is only like a bubble blown yesterday, the sun is as a spark struck from the anvil of omnipotence but a few days ago; and as for man, compared with the eternal God, he is “as nothing.” Psa_39:5....
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; How short is our life! It is just a span, and no more, Psa_39:5. And mine age is as nothing before thee: What multitudes of generations of men have come and gone! An angel might have cried, long before, “Man is but a thing of yesterday compared with the eternal God.” God created the first star that twinkled out of the primeval darkness. “The...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; — That is a very short measure, the breadth of a hand, the space that we can span with one of our hands, yet that is the true measure of our life: “Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;” — Psa_39:5. And mine age is as nothing before thee: — What are seventy or eighty years, even if we live so long as that, out of the thousands of years that...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Behold, thou hast made my days as, an handbreadth; This is a very common measure, the breadth of the human hand; and David says that this span is the measure of his life. Some here must surely have spent a great part of that handbreadth; let them and all of us be prepared to meet our God when that short span’s limit is reached. Psa_39:5. And mine age is as nothing before thee: It is an...