Psalms 50:12
Were I hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fulness are mine.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
In Context
11I know all the birds of the air, all that moves on the fields is mine.
13Am I such as to eat bulls’ flesh, or drink the blood of goats?
Cross References
Genesis 1:28Then God blessed them, and said to them: “Be fruitful, grow in number, fill the earth and govern it; rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that crawls on the ground,”
Psalms 104:24How many, O Lord, are your works, all of them made in wisdom! The earth is filled with your creatures.
Psalms 145:15The eyes of all look in hope to you, and you give them their food in due season.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:8-16
The Inefficacy of Legal Sacrifices. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not… Read the whole commentary →