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Psalms 34:12

Who is the man who desires life And loves many days, that he may see good?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Longevity;   Quotations and Allusions;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Peace;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Letters;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   Teacher;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Disease;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abimelech;   Achish;   Acrostic;   David;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Life;   Peter, First Epistle of;   Psalms;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Life;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Abimelech;   Achish;   Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Life;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexandri;   Calumny;   Education;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Does anyone want to live a life that is long and prosperous?
English Revised Version
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Update Bible Version
What man is he that desires life, And loves [many] days, that he may see good?
New Century Version
You must do these things to enjoy life and have many happy days.
New English Translation
Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life?
Webster's Bible Translation
What man [is he that] desireth life, [and] loveth [many] days, that he may see good?
World English Bible
Who is someone who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good?
English Standard Version
What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who is a man, that wole lijf; loueth to se good daies?
Berean Standard Bible
Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
Contemporary English Version
Do you want to live and enjoy a long life?
American Standard Version
What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may see good?
Bible in Basic English
What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?
Complete Jewish Bible
Come, children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of Adonai .
Darby Translation
What man is he that desireth life, [and] loveth days, that he may see good?
Easy-to-Read Version
Do you want to enjoy life? Do you want to have many happy days?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Come, ye children, hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
What man is hee that desireth life; and loueth many dayes, that he may see good?
New Life Bible
Who is the man who has a desire for life, and wants to live long so that he may see good things?
New Revised Standard
Which of you desires life, and covets many days to enjoy good?
Geneva Bible (1587)
What man is he, that desireth life, and loueth long dayes for to see good?
George Lamsa Translation
Where is the man who desires not life and many days that he may see the good time to come?
Good News Translation
Would you like to enjoy life? Do you want long life and happiness?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who is the man that desireth life, Loving days, that he may see good?
Douay-Rheims Bible
(33-13) Who is the man that desireth life: who liveth to see good days?
Revised Standard Version
What man is there who desires life, and covets many days, that he may enjoy good?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
What man is he that listeth to liue: [and] woulde fayne see good dayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
What man is there that desires life, loving to see good days?
Christian Standard Bible®
Who is someone who desires life,loving a long life to enjoy what is good?
Hebrew Names Version
Who is someone who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good?
King James Version
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Lexham English Bible
Who is the man who desires life, who loves many days in order to see good?
Literal Translation
Who is the man who desires life, who loves days in order to see good?
Young's Literal Translation
Who [is] the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who so listeth to lyue, & wolde fayne se good dayes.
THE MESSAGE
Who out there has a lust for life? Can't wait each day to come upon beauty?
New American Standard Bible
Who is the person who desires life And loves length of days, that he may see good?
New King James Version
Who is the man who desires life, And loves many days, that he may see good?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who is the man who desires life And loves length of days that he may see good?
Legacy Standard Bible
Who is the man who delights in lifeAnd loves many days that he may see good?

Contextual Overview

11Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you to fear the LORD [with awe-inspired reverence and worship Him with obedience]. 12Who is the man who desires life And loves many days, that he may see good?13Keep your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit. 14Turn away from evil and do good; Seek peace and pursue it. 15The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous [those with moral courage and spiritual integrity] And His ears are open to their cry. 16The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, To cut off the memory of them from the earth. 17When the righteous cry [for help], the LORD hears And rescues them from all their distress and troubles. 18The LORD is near to the heartbroken And He saves those who are crushed in spirit (contrite in heart, truly sorry for their sin). 19Many hardships and perplexing circumstances confront the righteous, But the LORD rescues him from them all. 20He keeps all his bones; Not one of them is broken.

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

Genesis 24:53
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.
Genesis 29:18
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."
Genesis 31:41
"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.
Genesis 34:16
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.
Genesis 34:17
"But if you do not listen to us and refuse to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter [Dinah] and go."
Genesis 34:25
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.
Genesis 34:27
Then Jacob's [other] sons came upon those who were killed and looted the town, because their sister had been defiled and disgraced.
Genesis 34:28
They took the Canaanites' flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field;
Genesis 34:29
they looted all their wealth, and [took captive] all their children and their wives, even everything that was in the houses.
2 Samuel 3:14
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.


 
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