Psalms 139:5

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,.... Meaning either the knowledge of himself, such as God had of him, which was vastly superior to what he had of himself; and especially the knowledge of other…

Thou hast beset me behind and before - The word rendered “beset” - צור tsûr - means properly to press; to press upon; to compress. It has reference commonly to the siege of a city, or to the pressing…

David here lays down this great doctrine, That the God with whom we have to do has a perfect knowledge of us, and that all the motions and actions both of our inward and of our outward man are naked…

beset me The word is used of besieging a town. God hems him in on all sides so that he cannot escape. The P.B.V. thou hast fashioned mefollows the LXX and other Ancient Versions in a less probable…