He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHe delighteth not in the strength of the horse: He taketh no pleasure in the legs of a man.
He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He takes no pleasure in the legpower of the man.
Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased.
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse, he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man;
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.