Job 19:8, 42:10-17, Psa 18:19, 31:8, 40:1-3, 118:5 | TSK | STEP

After.How long he had lived before his afflictions we cannot tell: if we could rely upon the LXX., all would be plain, which adds here, [ta de panta ete ezesen diakosia tessarakonta.] "And all the years he lived were two hundred and forty."

an.

Ge 11:32; 25:7; 35:28; 47:28; 50:26; De 34:7; Jos 24:29; Ps 90:10

and saw.

Ge 50:23; Ps 128:6; Pr 17:6

5:26; Ge 15:15; 25:8; De 6:2; Ps 91:16; Pr 3:16

Psalms 18:19

brought.

36; 31:8; 40:2; 118:5; Job 36:16

because.

37:23; 2Sa 22:18-27; 1Ki 10:9

Psalms 31:8

shut me.

88:8; De 32:30; 1Sa 17:46; 24:18; 26:8; Job 16:11; Isa 19:4; *marg:

set.

4:1; 18:19; Job 36:16

Psalms 40:1-3

1 The benefit of confidence in God.

6 Obedience is the best sacrifice.

11 The sense of David's evils inflames his prayer.

A.M. 2970. B.C. 1034. (Title.)This psalm is supposed to have been composed by David about the same time, and on the same occasion, as the two preceding; with this difference, that here he magnifies God for have obtained the mercy which he sought there. It also contains a remarkable prophecy of the incarnation and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

I waited. Heb. In waiting I waited.

27:13,14; 37:7; Jas 5:7-11

inclined.

116:2; 130:2; Da 9:18

brought.

18:16,17; 71:20; 86:13; 116:3; 142:6,7; 143:3; Isa 24:22; Jon 2:5,6

Zec 9:11; Ac 2:24,27-31

horrible pit. Heb. pit of noise.

Mt 13:50

the miry.

69:2,14,15; Jer 38:6-12; La 3:53-55

set.