Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 76:5

"The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands." — Psalms 76:5 (ASV)

Are spoiled. —Literally, have let themselves be spoiled. The picture is of men rendered powerless, at a glance, a word, from God.

Slept their sleep. —Better, have sunk into a deep sleep.

None of the men of might have found their hands. —This expression for powerlessness naturally grew into an idiom in a language that used the word hand as a synonym for strength. (Compare to Joshua 8:20, margin; Exodus 14:31, margin; Deuteronomy 32:36, margin.) Delitzsch quotes a Talmudic phrase, “We did not find our hands and feet in the school house.” We may compare the Virgilian use of manus , and Shakespeare’s “a proper fellow of my hands,” and for the use of “find” compare the common phrase “find one’s tongue.”