Psalms 50:12

12 If I get hungry, do you think I'd tell you? All creation and its bounty are mine.

Psalms 50:12 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 50:12

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee
Or "say to thee" ^F23; ask for anything

for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof;
with which, was the former his case, he could satisfy himself; see ( Psalms 24:1 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (Kl rma al) "non dicam tibi", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus; "non dicerem tibi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.

Psalms 50:12 In-Context

10 Every creature in the forest is mine, the wild animals on all the mountains.

11 I know every mountain bird by name; the scampering field mice are my friends.

12 If I get hungry, do you think I'd tell you? All creation and its bounty are mine.

13 Do you think I feast on venison? or drink draughts of goats' blood?

14 Spread for me a banquet of praise, serve High God a feast of kept promises,