Psalms 90:12
Let us then know how to number our days, that we may obtain a heart endowed with wisdom.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
In Context
11Who knoweth the strength of thy anger, and thy wrath which is like the fear of thee?
13Return, O Lord, how long yet? and bethink thee concerning thy servants.
Cross References
Job 28:28And he said unto man, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to eschew evil is understanding.
Psalms 39:5(39:6) Behold, measured out with the span hast thou made my days; and my whole duration is nothing before thee: yea, as nothing but vanity doth every man stand here. Selah.
Proverbs 3:13Happy the man that hath found wisdom, and the man that acquireth understanding.
Proverbs 4:7The beginning of wisdom is, Acquire wisdom: and with all thy acquisition acquire understanding.
Proverbs 8:32And now, O children [of men], hearken unto me! for happy those that observe my ways.
Proverbs 18:1He that separateth himself [from God] seeketh his own desires: at every sound wisdom is he enraged.
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 →