Psalms 35:14

I behaved myself, Heb. I walked; either to him, to visit and comfort him; or about the streets, whither my occasions led me. Though walking is oft put for a man's carriage or conversation. I bowed down; went hanging down my head, as mourners used to do, Isaiah 58:5. Mother; he mentions the mother rather than the father, either because her tender affection, and care, and kindness to him had more won upon his heart, and made him more sensible of the loss; or because, through the depravation of man's nature, children are many times less sensible of their father's loss or death, because it is compensated with some advantage to themselves; which doth not usually happen upon the mother's death. Some render it, as a mourning mother, for the loss of her son. But this doth not seem to suit so well with the order of the Hebrew words.