What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
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Gill's Exposition
What man is he that desireth life?.... Every man desires life, even a natural life; it is more desirable than all things in it; especially an healthful life, without which the blessings and mercies of…
Barnes' Notes
What man is he that desireth life? - That desires to live long. All people naturally love life; and all naturally desire to live long; and this desire, being founded in our nature, is not wrong. Life…
David, in this latter part of the psalm, undertakes to teach children. Though a man of war, and anointed to be king, he did not think it below him; though now he had his head so full of cares and his…
Cambridge Bible
The challenge with its answer in Psa 34:13-14 is a vivid and forcible equivalent for Whosoever desires … let him &c. Cp. Psa 25:12.
life Not mere existence, but life worthy of the name (Psa 16:11; Psa…
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