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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 39 - Introduction

* David meditates on man's frailty. (1-6) He applies for pardon and deliverance. (7-13)

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See also Psalms 39 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    This psalm purports to be a Psalm of David, but the special occasion in his life when it was composed is not specified, and it cannot now be ascertained. It was evidently, like the previous psalm, in...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This Psalm, which is pronounced by Ewald to be "indisputably the most beautiful of all the elegies in the Psalter," is a sequel to the preceding one. The situation of the Psalmist is in the main the s...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 seat (a-27) Or 'in the company.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XXXIX. “Undoubtedly,” says Ewald, “the finest elegy in the Psalter;” and the same scholar pronounces it original, so that the many points of similarity with the book of Job (see Notes, _passim_) must...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 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 so...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2962. B.C. 1042._ This Psalm, being of the same kind with the former, is generally supposed to have been written on the same occasion. (See the contents of the preceding Psalm.) It was evidentl...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HEADING. ‘For the Chief Musician, for Jeduthun. A Psalm to/for David.' This Psalm is offered to the person responsible for the sacred music, or the choirmaster, and is of the Davidic collection. ‘To...

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