All the days of the afflicted [are] evil
And some are afflicted all their days, from their youth up; so
that not only the days of old age are evil days, in which they
have no pleasure, but even the days of their youth; all their
days, as Jacob says, "few and evil have the days of the years of
my life been", ( Genesis 47:9
) ; because they had been filled up with affliction and trouble
of one sort or another. Or, "all the days of the poor"
F6; either in purse, who want many of
the good things of life; or in knowledge, as Gersom and Aben Ezra
observe; but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual
feast;
a heart that has "the kingdom of God" in it, which lies "not [in]
meat and drink, but [in] righteousness, peace, and joy in the
Holy Ghost", ( Romans 14:17
) : which has the love of God shed abroad in it by the Spirit,
where Christ dwells by faith; and that lives by faith on him, and
on the provisions of his grace; all this is a constant continual
feast to a gracious soul, made joyful hereby.
F6 (yne) "pauperis", V. L. Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus, Michaelis.
