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Scott's Reference Library
Psalm 31:9 through Psalm 31:16 (NIV)
9 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eyes grow weak with sorrow,
my soul and my body with grief.
10 My life is consumed by anguish
and my years by groaning;
my strength fails because of my affliction,
and my bones grow weak.
11 Because of all my enemies,
I am the utter contempt of my neighbors;
I am a dread to my friends—
those who see me on the street flee from me.
12 I am forgotten by them as though I were dead;
I have become like broken pottery.
13 For I hear the slander of many;
there is terror on every side;
they conspire against me
and plot to take my life.
14 But I trust in you, O LORD;
I say, “You are my God.”
15 My times are in your hands;
deliver me from my enemies
and from those who pursue me.
16 Let your face shine on your servant;
save me in your unfailing love.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 9-18
David’s troubles made him a man of sorrows. Herein he was a type of Christ, who
was acquainted with grief. David acknowledged that his afflictions were merited
by his own sins, but Christ suffered for ours. David’s friends durst not give
him any assistance. Let us not think it strange if thus deserted, but make sure
of a Friend in heaven who will not fail. God will be sure to order and dispose
all for the best, to all those who commit their spirits also into his hand. The
time of life is in God’s hands, to lengthen or shorten, make bitter or sweet,
according to the counsel of his will. The way of man is not in himself, nor in
our friend’s hands, nor in our enemies’ hands, but in God’s. In this faith and
confidence he prays that the Lord would save him for his mercies’s sake, and not
for any merit of his own. He prophesies the silencing of those that reproach and
speak evil of the people of God. There is a day coming, when the Lord will
execute judgment upon them. In the mean time, we should engage ourselves by
well-doing, if possible, to silence the ignorance of foolish men.