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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Psalms 17:14,15

What a beautiful contrast is drawn here between men of the world and the followers of the Lord! The former have their portion in this life. It is all they wish; all they covet; all they can enjoy. From such, the latter saith, the good Lord keep me. But let Jesus and his covenant blessings be mine; and thus, enjoying by faith the sweetness of his love here, by and by I shall arise up to the full and everlasting enjoyment of him and his salvation to all eternity.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 17:14. _FROM MEN OF THE WORLD_, WHICH HAVE] ממתים מחלד _mimethim_ _mecheled, from mortal men of time_; temporizers; men who shift with the times, who have no fixed principle but one, tha...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FROM MEN WHICH ARE THY HAND - Margin, “From men by thy hand.” Here the rendering in the common version would be still more harsh than in the previous verse, since it is at least unusual to call men “t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 17 The Prayer of Christ Against the Enemy _ 1. The Righteous Intercessor (Psalms 17:1)_ 2. Prayer for deliverance (Psalms 17:6) 3. The deliverance ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XVII. THE PRAYER OF A GODLY MAN FOR DELIVERANCE FROM HIS FOES. These foes are not foreign enemies but worldly Jews who persecute their pious and innocent neighbours. The cry for Divine help is made in...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MEN. Hebrew. _methim._ App-14. HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. See note on "ear", Psalms 17:1. WORLD. Hebrew. _heled._ The world as being transitory. See longer note on Psalms 49:1....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _from the wicked_, which is _thy sword: from men_which are _thy hand_ This rendering, which is in part that of Jerome, is retained in R.V. marg. For the thought that God uses even the wicked as His in...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _from men of the world_ Men whose aims and pleasures belong to the -world that passeth away": those who in N.T. language are -of the world" (John 15:19), -sons of this age" (Luke 16:8; Luke 20:34-35),...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FROM MEN OF THE WORLD, WHICH HAVE THEIR PORTION IN THIS LIFE— If we did enough remember, what it concerns wicked men to forget, _That they have their portion in this life,_ and are therefore _filled w...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 17 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE One who is Righteous Prays, in Great Trouble, for Divine Deliverance and Manifestation. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 17:1-2, The Prayer of Righteousness. Stanza II., vers,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FROM MEN WHICH ARE THY HAND, O LORD, FROM MEN OF THE WORLD, WHICH HAVE THEIR PORTION IN THIS LIFE, AND WHOSE BELLY THOU FILLEST WITH THY HID TREASURE: THEY ARE FULL OF CHILDREN, AND LEAVE THE REST OF...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    17:14 are] (l-4) Or '[by].' age. (m-13) _ Cheled_ or 'world.' so Psalms 49:1 ; 'life,' Psalms 89:47 and Job 11:17 ; also 'lifetime,' Ps...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The Psalmist makes his appeal to the justice of God (Psalms 17:1), and supports his prayer by an assertion of his conscious innocence (Psalms 17:3) and an account of the eager cruelty of his enemies ...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FROM MEN _which are,_ etc.] RV 'from men by thy hand.' FROM MEN OF THE WORLD, etc.] RM 'from men whose portion in life is of the world,' whose ideal is animal gratification, a numerous offspring, and...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    OF THE WORLD. — Literally, _of time._ Heb., _cheled,_ “that which creeps on,” an expression anticipating the New Testament use of _world._ (Comp. Job 21:7.) THEIR PORTION IN THIS LIFE — contrasts wit...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מִֽ מְתִ֥ים יָדְךָ֨ ׀ יְהוָ֡ה מִֽ מְתִ֬ים מֵ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 17:1 THE investigations as to authorship and date yield the usual conflicting results. Davidic, say one school; undoubtedly post-exilic, say another, without venturing on closer definition; lat...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S TRUE SERVANTS SAFELY KEPT Psalms 17:1 This also dates from the Sauline persecutions. In the earlier verses David protests his innocence, pleads for deliverance from his foes, and ends with glad...

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

    This psalm is generally conceded to be closely linked with the preceding one. There is an evident similarity of outlook. In each case the singer declares his abstention from complicity with ungodly me...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    From men [which are] thy (l) hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their (m) portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and le...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._From men by thy hand, O Jehovah, from men who are from an age. _I connect these words thus: O Lord, deliver me by thy hand, or by thy heavenly aid, from men; I say from men whose tyranny has preva...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The key to Psalms 16 was in the words, "In thee do I put my trust"; to Psalms 17, "Hear the right." In Psalms 16 we have seen the blessed path and working of that spirit of confidence. It is, though t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FROM MEN [WHICH ARE] THY HAND, O LORD,.... Some understand these words, with what follows, as independent of the former, and of another set of men, even of good men; so the Targum, "and the righteous...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    From men [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the...

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

    _From men which are thy hand_ Wherewith thou dost correct me. _From men of the world_ Who prosper in, and set their hearts upon, this vain and transitory world, and neither have, nor choose, nor desir...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    DAVID CALLS UPON GOD FOR HELP...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    from men which are Thy hand, rather, delivering from the wicked projects of these people with His hand, O LORD, FROM MEN OF THE WORLD, whose entire interest is in this life, WHICH HAVE THEIR PORTION,...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FROM MEN WHICH ARE THY HAND: Or, from men by thine hand THEY ARE FULL OF CHILDREN: Or, their children are full...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    8-15 Being compassed with enemies, David prays to God to keep him in safety. This prayer is a prediction that Christ would be preserved, through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHICH ARE THY HAND, wherewith thou dost correct me. MEN OF THE WORLD, i. e. who prosper in and set their hearts upon this vain and transitory world, and neither have, nor choose, or desire any other p...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 17:14 hand H3027 men H4962 LORD H3068 men H4962 world H2465 portion H2506 life H2416 belly H990 fill...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Arise, O YHWH. Confront him, make him bow down, Deliver my soul from the unrighteous by your sword, From men by your hand, O YHWH, From men of the world, whose portion is in this life, And whose...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 17:14 The general purport of the expression "a man of the world" will be allowed to be that which is evidently David's meaning in the text: a man who has no spiritual yearnings, no holy aspira...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 17:1. _Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips._ Good men are often slandered and misunderstood; and, at such times, the first v...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: David prays for relief from the pressure of enemies. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: If we are abused and misrepresented, we have a righteous God to go to whose judgment is according t...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Psalms 17:3. _Thou hast tried me._ Vulgate, _Igne me examinâsti,_ Thou hast proved or tested me with fire, referring to the test of metals. Psalms 17:14. _Men which have their portion in this life,_ a...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Which have their portion in this life._ THE UNCERTAINTY OF WORLDLY PROSPERITY Like many other passages (such as Job 21:7; Psalms 73:12), these verses clearly show how little “the old Fathers looked,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:1. This is an individual lament, dealing especially with cases in which a person considers himself unjustly accused of wrong (compare Psalms 7:1

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:13 Amid such threats, when it seems unlikely that the attacker will repent (v. Psalms 17:10), the proper response is prayer for the enemy’s defeat....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 17:14 The text describes these attackers as people whose only reward is in this life (their TREASURE and their CHILDREN). They leave all their wealth behind when they die. This co...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION “David pours forth to God in this psalm an earnest prayer for deliverance from his inveterate enemies, who were bent on taking away his life. We find in it his opinion of the character of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS psalm is termed "a prayer"—"a Prayer of David." It consists, no doubt, mainly of a series of petitions (Psalms 17:1, Psalms 17:2, Psalms 17:6,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The seventeenth psalm is another prayer of David. And it is, again, one of those prayers where David is sort of pleading his own cause, his own righteousness before the Lord. Hear the right, O LORD,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 4:4; 1 John 4:5; James 5:5; Job 12:6; Job 12:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thy hand — Wherewith thou dost correct me. World — Who set their hearts upon this world, and neither have, nor desire any other portion. Belly — Mind or appetite, as that word is used, Job 20:20. Prov...

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