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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 40:4

Respecteth not. — Better, turneth not towards proud men and false apostates. The words are, however, somewhat obscure. The LXX. and Vulg. have “vanities and false madnesses.” The words we have rendered false apostates are by some translated “turners after idols.” Idolatry is doubtless implied, but not expressed.

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See also Psalms 40:4 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 40:4. _BLESSED_ IS _THAT MAN_] The man must be blessed and happy who casts his soul, with all its burden of sin and wretchedness, at the footstool of God's mercy; for he will save all who...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BLESSED IS THAT MAN THAT MAKETH THE LORD HIS TRUST - See the notes at Psalms 34:8. Compare Psalms 27:1. Literally, here, “The blessings of the man who places Yahweh for his confidence;” that is, who m...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 40 Christ the Obedient One and the Fruit of His Work _ 1. The path of the Obedient One (Psalms 40:1)_ 2. His prayer and His comfort (Psalms 40:13)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XL. A. PSALMS 40:1. A THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE. The Psalmist believes that his own gratitude will give confidence to others. God, he says, takes no special delight in sacrificial worship. It is gr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BLESSED. Happy. See App-63. MAN. strong man. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Happy is the man that hath mada Jehovah his trust, And hath not turned unto the arrogant, and false apostates. The word for _man_is that used in Psalms 34:8, where see note. For the opposite to -mak...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The blessedness of such a trust....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    RESPECTETH NOT THE PROUD— _The proud, and those who incline to lies,_ are, on one side, the haughty daring atheists, who laugh at all application to any power above; and on the other, those who put th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 40 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Three Stirring Reminiscences of King David's History. ANALYSIS Part I., Significant Memorials of David's Coronation. Stanza I., Psalms 40:1-3, A highly Figurative Descri...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _BLESSED IS THAT MAN THAT MAKETH THE LORD HIS TRUST, AND RESPECTETH NOT THE PROUD, NOR SUCH AS TURN ASIDE TO LIES._ The inference from the gracious deliverance vouchsafed by the Lord to Him (as the S...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    40:4 man (f-4) _ Geber_ . see Job 3:3 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. falls into two well-marked divisions, which many think to have been originally separate Pss. In Psalms 40:1 the writer recalls with thankfulness how God has heard his prayers and delivered hi...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 40:5]_ אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי הַ גֶּ֗בֶר אֲשֶׁר ־שָׂ֣ם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 40:1 THE closing verses of this psalm reappear with slight changes as an independent whole in Psalms 70:1. The question arises whether that is a fragment or this a conglomerate. Modern opinion...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A JOYOUS TESTIMONY Psalms 40:1 This psalm follows appropriately on the two former, in which the psalmist had been detailing his sufferings. Here he celebrates deliverance. But a Greater than David is...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Again we find in this psalm the perfect structure found in Psalms 27:1. Praise prepares for prayer. The experience has mounted higher than in the preceding song (39). The singer still suffers diction,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth (d) not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. (d) To follow their example, which he must do who trusts not only in the Lord....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    His bed. Literally, "on the bed of his sorrow." His, seems to have been formerly in Hebrew, (Houbigant) though it be now omitted, (Berthier) as it was in the time of Symmachus, "the bed of misery," (S...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a blessed testimony is here found in the Old Testament church concerning the whole New Testament dispensation. By him, that is Christ, all that believe are justified from all things. Acts 13:39....

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._Blessed is the man who hath set Jehovah for his confidence _David here relates what ground for good hope his deliverance would give to all the faithful; inasmuch as, setting aside all the alluremen...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 40 AND 41. In Psalms 40 then Christ is seen, not only in His passage through the sorrows which beset His way, if He took up the cause of the disobedient and guil...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT MAKETH THE LORD HIS TRUST,.... For such are safe and secure in him, are possessed of all blessings of grace through him, have peace in their own souls now, and shall enjoy eter...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Ver. 4. _Blessed is that man, &c._] See Psalms 2:12 . _ And respecteth not the prou...

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

    _Blessed is the man_, &c. I said, many _shall trust in the Lord_, and they shall not be losers by it, nor disappointed of their hope; but they are and shall be blessed. _And respecteth not_ ולא פנה, _...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, who sets Jehovah as his confidence alone, AND RESPECTETH NOT THE PROUD, turning to them for help, NOR SUCH AS TURN ASIDE TO LIES, to the false idols...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PROPHECY OF CHRIST'S SUFFERING AND PROPHETIC OFFICE. To the chief musician, for performance in liturgical services, a psalm of David, the Messiah Himself speaking through his mouth and pen. Cf Hebrew...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 Doubts and fears about the eternal state, are a horrible pit and miry clay, and have been so to many a dear child of God. There is power enough in God to help the weakest, and grace enough to hel...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    HIS TRUST, i.e. his only trust or refuge, as appears from the following words: q.d. I said, many _shall trust in the Lord_; and they shall not be losers by it, nor disappointed of their hope, but they...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 40:4 Blessed H835 man H1397 makes H7760 (H8804) LORD H3068 trust H4009 respect H6437 (H8804) proud...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HE DECLARES THAT THE MAN WHO DOES SO TRUST IN YHWH, AND LIVES ACCORDINGLY, WILL EXPERIENCE GOD'S WONDERFUL WORKING ON HIS BEHALF (PSALMS 40:4). Psalms 40:4 ‘Blessed is the man who makes YHWH his tru...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    These are the words of David: they are the words of all God's tried and believing people; but above all they are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. So complete is the union between Christ and...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    If our hearts are in trouble, as his was who wrote this Psalm, may we be able to act as wisely and as well as he did, and so obtain a like deliverance! Psalms 40:1. _I waited patiently for the LORD;...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. If I were to read this Psalm all through as referring to Christ, and to Christ only, I should be correct in so doing; but still, there is such a unity between...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's salvation extolled and prayer for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Those who seek God in all their perplexities shall rejoice and be glad in Him, for He will not only...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This psalm of David is a consequence of the preseding. It is an ode of thanksgiving for liberation from the profound grief and sorrow under which he had groaned. Here he rises above the cloud, and as...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry._ WAITING FOR THE LORD There is a Divine law of waiting which has an essential connection with the larger law of giving....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Blessed is the man who maketh the Lord his trust._ THE BLESSEDNESS OF MAKING THE LORD OUR TRUST I. What is implied by our trust. 1. That it rests in the Lord Himself. 2. It sets aside all self-co...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 40:1. This psalm combines thanks for past mercies with a new request for God’s help. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_: “To the Chief Musician, a Psalm of David.” The psalm is addressed to “the Chief Musician,” that he might set it to music for use in public worship. We have no means of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE occasion of this psalm is some great deliverance which has been vouchsafed to the author of it, for which he desires to praise and thank God. Of this deliverance he speaks in Psalms 40:...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay, he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings ...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Thessalonians 2:9; Isaiah 44:18; Jeremiah 10:14; Jeremiah 10:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The proud — Or, the mighty, the great and proud potentates of the world, to whom most men are apt to look and trust. Turn — From God, in whom alone they ought to trust. To lies — To lying vanities, su...

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