Psalms 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
In Context
11Who knows the power of thine anger, and thy wrath according to the fear that is due to thee?
13Return, O LORD. How long? And relent concerning thy servants.
Cross References
Job 28:28And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.
Psalms 39:5Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.
Proverbs 3:13Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding.
Proverbs 4:7Wisdom [is] the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding.
Proverbs 8:32Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me. For blessed are those who keep my ways.
Proverbs 18:1He who desires to separate himself seeks excuses, and rages against all sound wisdom.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 90:8-12
Penitent Submission. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even… Read the whole commentary →