Psa 90:9-10 | TSK | e4.org | For passed Heb. turned we spend The Vulgate has, Anni nostri sicut aranea mediatabuntur , "Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our plans and operations are like the spider's web. Life is as frail, and the thread of it as brittle, as one of those which constitute the well-wrought and curious, but fragile habitation of that insect. All the versions have the word spider, but it is not found in any Hebrew manuscripts, or edition yet collated. The Hebrew might be rendered, "We consume our lives with a groan," kemo hegeh . a tale Heb. a meditation, ,

‏ Psalms 90:9-10

passed Heb. turned

we spend The Vulgate has, Anni nostri sicut aranea mediatabuntur, "Our years pass away like those of the spider." Our plans and operations are like the spider's web. Life is as frail, and the thread of it as brittle, as one of those which constitute the well-wrought and curious, but fragile habitation of that insect. All the versions have the word spider, but it is not found in any Hebrew manuscripts, or edition yet collated. The Hebrew might be rendered, "We consume our lives with a groan," kemo hegeh.

a tale Heb. a meditation, Ps 90:4, Ps 39:5

The days etc. Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years, Gen 47:9; Deut 34:7

yet 2Sam 19:35; 1Kgs 1:1; Eccl 12:2-7

for Ps 78:39; Job 14:10 *marg. Job 24:24; Isa 38:12; Luke 12:20; Jas 4:14