Psalms 37:18

“Open thou mine eyes, etc.] The eyes of my heart or understanding, as Kimchi; or, “reveal mine eyes” f1646; take off the veil from them: there is a veil of darkness and ignorance on the hearts of all men, with respect to divine and spiritual things; their understandings are darkened, yea, darkness itself. This veil must be removed; the scales must drop from their eyes; their eyes must be opened and enlightened, before they can discern spiritual things contained in the word of God; and even good men need to have the eyes of their understandings more and more enlightened into these things, as the psalmist here petitions, and the apostle prays for his Ephesians, (<490117>Ephesians 1:17,18); that…”

“God, who knows His people's changes, provides against evil and supplies all their need.”

“The Lord knoweth the days of the upright - See the notes at Psalms 1:6. He knows how long they will live, and all that will happen to them. He sees their whole course of life; he sees the end. It is implied here that his eyes are on all the allotted days of their life; on all that has been ordained for them in the whole course of their life; and that nothing can shorten the days appointed to them. The wicked expect to live, hope to live, make their arrangements to live; but their eyes cannot rest on the future, and they cannot see the end - cannot tell precisely when they will be cut off. Some unexpected calamity - something which they cannot foresee - may come upon them, and cut short their…”

“Knoweth - Observes with care and affection. The days - All things which befal them, their dangers and fears, and suffering. For ever - To them and their seed for ever: and when they die their inheritance is not lost, but exchanged for one infinitely better. Psalms 37:20”

“37:18-20 The Lord cares for the blameless in this life and for eternity, but the wicked will perish.”

“knoweth: Psa 1:6, Psa 31:7; Mat 6:32; Ti2 2:19 the days: Psa 37:13, Psa 31:15, Psa 49:5; Deu 33:25; Mat 24:21-24; Ti2 3:1-5, Ti2 4:2-4; Rev 11:3-5 their: Psa 16:11, Psa 21:4, Psa 73:24, Psa 103:17; Isa 60:21; Rom 5:21, Rom 6:23; Pe1 1:4, Pe1 1:5; Jo1 2:25 Psalms 37:19”

“The life of those who love Jahve with the whole heart is, with all its vicissitudes, an object of His loving regard and of His observant providential care, Psa 1:6; Psa 31:8, cf. Psa 16:1-11. He neither suffers His own to lose their heritage nor to be themselves lost to it. The αἰώνιος κληρονομία is not as yet thought of as extending into the future world, as in the New Testament. In Psa 37:19 the surviving refers only to this present life. Psalms 37:20”