Psalms 34:12 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 34:12

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

KJV

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ASV

What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may see good?

WEB

Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?

YLT

Who is the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?

DBT

What man is he that desireth life, [and] loveth days, that he may see good?

About this book

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Psalms — 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.

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19 verses on the floor

1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Psalms 15:2
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Deuteronomy 30:20
That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Deuteronomy 6:2
That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

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To enforce this good counsel he shows God's favour to the righteous and his displeasure against the wicked, in which he sets before us good and evil, the blessing and the curse,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

): What man is he that desireth life? that is, as it follows, not only to see many days, but to see good comfortable days. Non est vivere, sed valere, vita--It is not being, but well being, that constitutes life. It is asked, "Who wishes to live a long and pleasant life?" and it is easily answered, Who does not?

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

What man--Whoever desires the blessings of piety, let him attend. Sins of thought included in those of speech (Lu 6:45), avoiding evil and doing good in our relations to men are based on a right relation to God.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Quoted in 1PE 3:10
'He that will love life... let him refrain his tongue from evil'

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H265512× in canon H157211× in canon

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