Psalms 34:12

The challenge with its answer in Psalms 34:13 is a vivid and forcible equivalent for Whosoever desires … let him &c. Cp. Psalms 25:12.

life Not mere existence, but life worthy of the name (Psalms 16:11; Psalms 30:5); again a word characteristic of Proverbs, and connected there too with the fear of the Lord (Proverbs 14:27; Proverbs 19:23; Proverbs 22:4).

and loveth Lit., loving days for seeing good, explaining and emphasising the preceding line. Cp. Psalms 34:10; Psalms 4:6. Days= length of days (Proverbs 3:2; Proverbs 10:27).