Psalms 32:8

Who is the speaker? The Psalmist or God? Most commentators suppose that it is the Psalmist, who now assumes the part of teacher, as in Psalms 34:11, and fulfils the promise of Psalms 51:13. But surely it must be God who speaks in answer to the Psalmist's profession of trust.

Would any human teacher venture to say, I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee, as the last line must be rendered with R.V.? For the ever-wakeful -eye" of God's loving Providence see Psalms 33:18; Psalms 34:15; Jeremiah 24:6. The view that God is the speaker is confirmed by the parallels in Psalms 25:8; Psalms 25:12; Psalms 16:7; Psalms 73:24; and it avoids the abruptness of the transition from Psalms 32:7 to Psalms 32:8, and the awkwardness of the change to the plural in Psalms 32:9, which the other explanation involves.