Psalms 31:15

“Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, etc.] The days of affliction are times of sorrow; and days of prosperity make glad and joyful; and the psalmist here seems to desire an equal number of the one as of the other; not that an exact precise number of the one with the other is intended; but that there might be a proper proportion of the one to the other; and commonly God does “set the one over against the other”: there is a mixture of both in the believer’s life, which is like unto a chequer of black and white, in which there is a proper proportion of both colours; and so prosperity and adversity are had in turns, “and work together for good” to them that love the…”

“times--course of life. deliver . . . hand--opposed to "shut me up," &c., of Psa 31:8.”

“My times are in thy hand - That is, I said this in my trouble; when my friends forsook me, and when my enemies came around me and threatened my life. The meaning is, that all that pertained to him was under the control and at the disposal of God. He would “live” as long as God should please. It was His to give life; His to preserve it; His to take it away. All in relation to life - its origin - its continuance - its changes - its seasons - childhood, youth, middle age, old age - all was in the hand of God. No one, therefore, could take his life before the time that had been appointed by God, and he might calmly commit the whole to him. This we may feel in all seasons of life and in all times…”

“My times - All the affairs and events of my life, are wholly in thy power. Psalms 31:19”

“31:15 My future is in your hands: To relinquish control of timing is one way to express submission.”

“My times: Psa 116:15; Sa1 26:10; Sa2 7:12; Job 24:1; Ecc 3:1-8; Luk 9:51; Joh 7:6, Joh 7:30, Joh 12:27, Joh 13:1, Joh 17:1; Act 1:7, Act 23:11, Act 27:24; Ti2 4:6; Pe2 1:14 deliver: Psa 17:8, Psa 17:9, Psa 17:13, Psa 71:10-12, Psa 142:6, Psa 143:3, Psa 143:12; Jer 15:20, Jer 15:21 Psalms 31:16”