Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 56:1

"Be merciful unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me." — Psalms 56:1 (ASV)

Man ... —Heb., enôsh, either as in Psalms 9:19, mortal man, or, contemptuously, “a rabble, a multitude.”