the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Psalms 34:12
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Does anyone want to live a life that is long and prosperous?
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
What man is he that desires life, And loves [many] days, that he may see good?
You must do these things to enjoy life and have many happy days.
Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life?
What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days, that he may see good?
Who is someone who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good?
What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?
Who is a man, that wole lijf; loueth to se good daies?
Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
Do you want to live and enjoy a long life?
What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may see good?
What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?
Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of Adonai .
What man is he that desireth life, [and] loveth days, that he may see good?
Do you want to enjoy life? Do you want to have many happy days?
Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
What man is hee that desireth life; and loueth many dayes, that he may see good?
Who is the man who has a desire for life, and wants to live long so that he may see good things?
Which of you desires life, and covets many days to enjoy good?
What man is he, that desireth life, and loueth long dayes for to see good?
Where is the man who desires not life and many days that he may see the good time to come?
Would you like to enjoy life? Do you want long life and happiness?
Who is the man that desireth life, Loving days, that he may see good?
(33-13) Who is the man that desireth life: who liveth to see good days?
What man is there who desires life, and covets many days, that he may enjoy good?
What man is he that listeth to liue: [and] woulde fayne see good dayes.
What man is there that desires life, loving to see good days?
Who is someone who desires life,loving a long life to enjoy what is good?
Who is someone who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good?
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Who is the man who desires life, who loves many days in order to see good?
Who is the man who desires life, who loves days in order to see good?
Who [is] the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?
Who so listeth to lyue, & wolde fayne se good dayes.
Who out there has a lust for life? Can't wait each day to come upon beauty?
Who is the person who desires life And loves length of days, that he may see good?
Who is the man who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good?
Who is the man who desires life And loves length of days that he may see good?
Who is the man who delights in lifeAnd loves many days that he may see good?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
What: Psalms 21:4, Psalms 91:16, Deuteronomy 6:2, Deuteronomy 30:20, 1 Peter 3:10, 1 Peter 3:11
that he: Psalms 4:6, Job 7:7, Ecclesiastes 2:3, Ecclesiastes 12:13
Reciprocal: Genesis 19:16 - the Lord Deuteronomy 11:9 - prolong Deuteronomy 25:15 - that thy days Job 32:7 - General Psalms 15:2 - speaketh Psalms 94:14 - forsake Ecclesiastes 6:6 - yet Isaiah 65:20 - There shall Amos 5:14 - Seek Matthew 5:9 - are
Cross-References
Then the servant brought out jewelry of silver, jewelry of gold, and articles of clothing, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, "I will serve you [as a hired workman] for seven years [in return] for [the privilege of marrying] Rachel your younger daughter."
"These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for [my share of] your flocks, and you have changed my wages ten times.
then we will give our daughters to you [in marriage], and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people.
"But if you do not listen to us and refuse to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter [Dinah] and go."
Now on the third day [after the circumcision], when all the men were [terribly] sore and in pain, two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's [full] brothers, took their swords, boldly entered the city [without anyone suspecting them of evil intent], and they killed every male.
Then Jacob's [other] sons came upon those who were killed and looted the town, because their sister had been defiled and disgraced.
They took the Canaanites' flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field;
they looted all their wealth, and [took captive] all their children and their wives, even everything that was in the houses.
So David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Give me my wife Michal, to whom I was betrothed for [the price of] a hundred foreskins of the Philistines."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
What man [is he that] desireth life?.... Every man desires life, even a natural life; it is more desirable than all things in it; especially an healthful life, without which the blessings and mercies of life cannot be comfortably enjoyed; and still more a life of prosperity; life, with an affluence of good things, and even a long one: though it may be rather that a spiritual life is here meant, and a comfortable one; a life free from the remorses of a guilty conscience, from the fear of hell, damnation, and wrath; from the bondage of the law, and the dread of death; a life of faith on Christ, and communion with him; and a life of sobriety, righteousness, and holiness; and perhaps it may be best of all to understand it of eternal life, which is life eminently and emphatically; it follows,
[and] loveth [many] days; that is, good ones; as they are interpreted in 1 Peter 3:10; not of this life, for the days of it are evil, and especially when they are lengthened out; the days of old age, Ecclesiastes 12:1; unless the days of the son of man, the days of enjoying the presence of God in his house and ordinances, should be intended; though rather the good and many days of eternity, even length of days, for ever and ever, in which will be fulness of joy, and never ceasing and never fading pleasures;
that he may see good; there is good to be seen and enjoyed in this life, which if the saints did not believe they should see and enjoy, they would often faint; and this good lies in the participation of the blessings of grace, and in fellowship with Father, Son, and Spirit: but the great and lasting good to be seen and enjoyed is in the world to come, when God shall be all in all, be seen as he is, and the saints shall inherit all things.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
What man is he that desireth life? - That desires to live long. All people naturally love life; and all naturally desire to live long; and this desire, being founded in our nature, is not wrong. Life is, in itself, a good - a blessing to be desired; death is in itself an evil, and a thing to be dreaded, and there is nothing wrong, in itself, in such a dread. Equally proper is it to wish not to be cut down in early life; for where one has before him an eternity for which to prepare, he feels it undesirable that he should be cut off in the beginning of his way. The psalmist, therefore, does not put this question because he supposes that there were any who did not desire life, or did not wish to see many days, but in order to fix the attention on the inquiry, and to prepare the mind for the answer which was to follow. By thus putting the question, also, he has implicitly expressed the opinion that it is lawful to desire life, and to wish to see many days.
And loveth many days - literally, “loving days.” That is, who so loves days, considered as a part of life, that he wishes they may be prolonged and multiplied.
That he may see good - That he may enjoy prosperity, or find happiness. In other words, who is he that would desire to understand the way by which life may be lengthened out to old age, and by which it may be made happy and prosperous? The psalmist proposes to answer this question - as he does in the following verses, by stating the results of what he had experienced and observed.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 34:12. What man is he that desireth life — He who wishes to live long and to live happily, let him act according to the following directions. For a comment upon this and the four ensuing verses, see the notes on 1 Peter 3:10-12.
