Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 7. We are consumed by thine anger ] Death had not entered into the world, if men had not fallen from God.
By thy wrath are we troubled ] Pain, disease, and sickness are so many proofs of our defection from original rectitude. The anger and wrath of God are moved against all sinners. Even in protracted life we consume away, and only seem to live in order to die.
"Our wasting lives grow shorter still, As days and months increase; And every beating pulse we tell Leaves but the number less."
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-11 - The afflictions of the saints often come from God's love; but the rebukes of sinners, and of believers for their sins, must be see coming from the displeasure of God. Secret sins are known to God, an shall be reckoned for. See the folly of those who go about to cove their sins, for they cannot do so. Our years, when gone, can no more be recalled than the words that we have spoken. Our whole life is toilsom and troublesome; and perhaps, in the midst of the years we count upon it is cut off. We are taught by all this to stand in awe. The angel that sinned know the power of God's anger; sinners in hell know it; but which of us can fully describe it? Few seriously consider it as the ought. Those who make a mock at sin, and make light of Christ, surel do not know the power of God's anger. Who among us can dwell with tha devouring fire?
Original Hebrew כי3588 כלינו3615 באפך639 ובחמתך2534 נבהלנו׃926
