Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 116:11 - 116:11

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Psalms 116:11 - 116:11


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I said; yet once I confess I spake very unadvisedly. In my haste; through hastiness and precipitation of my mind, for want of due consideration, as the same phrase is used, Psa_31:22. Or, in my terror or amazement, when I was discomposed and distracted with the greatness of my troubles.



All men are liars: the sense is either,



1. All men, yea, even my former friends and companions, prove deceitful and perfidious, all human help faileth me; so that my case is desperate, if God do not help me. Or,



2. All men, God’s own prophets not excepted, are liable to mistakes by the condition of their nature, as they are men, and therefore may easily deceive others; and this might be the case of Samuel in his promise of the kingdom to me. Thus he questions the truth of God’s promises, yet so as he doth not strike directly at God, but only reflects upon the instrument.