But I am a worm, and no man - In contrast with the fathers who trusted in you. They prayed, and were heard; they confided in God, a…

Worm. —An indication of extreme degradation and helple ne . .

O You who inhabit the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in You, they trusted, and You delivered them. They cried to You, and were delivere…

But I am a worm, and not a man. David does not complain against God as if God had dealt harshly with him; but in lamenting his condition, …

But I [am] a worm, and no man
Christ calls himself a worm, not because of his original, for he was not of the earth …

The Spirit of Christ, who was in the prophets, testifies clearly and fully in this psalm to the sufferings of Christ and the glory that would follo…

1. In the previous psalms, the sufferings which David endured from his son and from Saul seemed to be addre ed. Now here, in the third set o…