Psalms 34:12

"Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of the LORD."

Key Reflection

This verse invites the next generation to learn the ways of fearing God directly from the psalmist's experience, emphasizing that spiritual wisdom and reverence for the Lord are foundational values to be passed on to future generations.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

What man is he that desireth life? -That desires to live long. All people naturally love life; and all naturally desire to live long; and this desire, being founded in our nature, is not wrong. Life is, in itself, a good - a blessing to be desired; death is in itself an evil, and a thing to be dreaded, and there is nothing wrong, in itself, in such a dread. Equally proper is it to wish not to be cut down in early life; for where one has before him an eternity for which to prepare, he feels it undesirable that he should be cut off in the beginning of his way.

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