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Selected Verse: Psalms 25:12 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 25:12 |
King James |
What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| What he asks for himself is the common lot of all the pious. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
What man is he - Who is he. The statement in this verse is intended to include every man; or to be universal. Wherever one is found who has the character here referred to, or whoever he may be, of him what is here affirmed will be true, that God will lead him in the way that he shall choose.
That feareth the Lord - That is, a true worshipper of Yahweh, or that is truly a pious man: Psa 5:7. "Him shall he teach." He will guide, or instruct him. See Psa 25:9.
In the way that he shall choose - The way that the person ought to choose; or, in other words, in the right way. It is not the way that God shall choose, but the way that the pious person ought to choose: God will so instruct him that he shall find the true path. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
feareth
(See Scofield) - (Psa 19:9). |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
The question: quisnam est vir, which resembles Psa 34:13; Psa 107:43; Isa 50:10, is only propounded in order to draw attention to the person who bears the character described, and then to state what such an one has to expect. In prose we should have a relative antecedent clause instead, viz., qui (quisquis) talis est qui Dominum vereatur.
(Note: The verb ver-eri, which signifies "to guard one's self, defend one's self from anything" according to its radical notion, has nothing to do with ירא (ורא).)
The attributive יבהר, (viam) quam eligat (cf. Isa 48:17), might also be referred to God: in which He takes delight (lxx); but parallels like Psa 119:30, Psa 119:173, favour the rendering: which he should choose. Among all the blessings which fall to the lot of him who fears God, the first place is given to this, that God raises him above the vacillation and hesitancy of human opinion. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Chuse - Which God appointeth. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
That feareth the Lord - Who has a proper apprehension of his holiness, justice, and truth; and who, at the same time, sees himself a fallen spirit, and a transgressor of God's holy law, and consequently under the curse. That is the person that truly and reverently fears God.
Him shall he teach - Such a person has a teachable spirit.
The way that he shall choose - The way that in the course of Providence he has chosen, as the way in which he is to gain things honest in the sight of all men; God will bless him in it, and give him as much earthly prosperity as may be useful to his soul in his secular vocation. |
9 The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
30 I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
10 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.