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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
Surely every man walketh in a vain show,.... Or "in an image" (z); not "in the image of the Lord", as the Targum; in the image in which God created man, for that is lost; nor in that which is stamped on men in regeneration; for every man does not walk in that; rather in the image of fallen man, in which every man is born and walks: or "in a shadow" (a); or like one; to which the days of man's...
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
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: Like players, or actors, all of us are walking in a phantom show; which is not really anything, but only seems to be. Psa_39:6. Surely they are disquieted in vain: They make a dreadful noise in the tumult of the battle, the din of the exchange, the hum of the streets, the fret and worry of the counting-house; but it is all in vain. Psa_39:6. He heapeth up...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain show: He is a shadow walking among shadows. Psa_39:6. Surely they are disquieted in vain: They fret and fume about nothing. Psa_39:6. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. He is busy with a rake, but another will be busy with a fork. What the miser gathers the spendthrift scatters.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: This world is a mere theater, and men strut across its stage, acting their various parts. They come and they go as if they were mere figures moved by invisible wires; the most of men do not live at all, but only seem to live for they have not the true, spiritual, eternal life within them. Every man walks like a performer in a pageant, or like those who...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: They fret, and fume, and flurry, and worry, and all about what? About nothing. We sometimes say, “It will be all the same a hundred years hence.” Ah! but it will be all the same much sooner than that, when the six feet of earth shall be all our heritage. Psa_39:6. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather...