What is man—what claim does one so weak, frail, and short-lived have to be remembered by You? What is there in man that entitles him to so m…

Man ... son of man ... — The first, possibly, with a suggestion of frailty; the second, to his l…

He, whose voice rolls the stars along, who makes those bright worlds to fly like sparks from the anvil of his omnipotence, how can he stoop so low …

As the Hebrew particle כי, ki, often has the same meaning as because or for, and simply affirms a thing, both the Greek …

What is man, that you are mindful of him ?
&c.] That is, the psalmist, while he was considering the greatness and gl…

We are to consider the heavens, so that man may in this way be directed to set his affections on things above. What is man, so lowly a creature, th…

Previously, the psalmist offered a psalm in which David prayed because of his persecution; here, he offers a psalm of thanksgiving.

He prese…