Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fullness thereof.
12. the world is mine &c.] Cp. Psa 24:1; Psa 89:11; Exo 19:5; Deu 10:14; Job 41:11 ; 1Co 10:26.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee – I should not have occasion to apply to you; I should not be dependent on you.
For the world is mine – The earth; all that has been created.
And the fulness thereof – All that fills the world; all that exists upon it. The whole is at his disposal; to all that the earth produces he has a right. This language is used to show the absurdity of the supposition that he was in any way dependent on man, or that the offering of sacrifice could be supposed in any way to lay him under obligation.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Psa 50:12
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof.
The owner of the world
I. There must be a growing knowledge of God amongst men. Men once thought that God could be hungry, and that offerings of wheat, goats, etc., would appease His appetite: but when this psalm was written they had advanced far beyond this in their knowledge of God. And we now have no such idea. Science, learning, and the study of the life of Jesus, have classified and enlarged our ideas of God and Gods workings. Then we ought not to be afraid to say, The teachings of our fathers, the associations of the old theology of creeds must be modified. We must not allow our spiritual life to be controlled by leading strings held in dead hands. We must be ready to stand in the light of the revealed character of God, and accept our impulses and conclusions from that.
II. A statement of the rights of God over the world promotes that knowledge, How many of those who read inscribed on the portico of the Royal Exchange, The earth is the Lords and the fulness thereof, ever ponder the large meaning of these words. All natural things are His. How we prize that which is ours–from our first childrens toys to our possessions now that we are come to mature age. And because this feeling of ownership is in us we know that it is in God. And not only the things, but the energies in them, are His. And all things that men produce, for they come out of the fulness of Gods world. What, then, can He wish for from us but that we come to know Him and to love and honour Him as we should? Therefore remember–
(1) All property is held from God. We are but His stewards.
(2) Everything in the world is a witness to God.
(3) God is the sustainer of all things. (D. O. Watt, M. A.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 12. The world is mine, and the fulness thereof.] Ye cannot, therefore, give me any thing that is not my own.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
If I wanted or desired any thing, as I do not, being the all-sufficient God,
I would not tell thee, that thou mightest supply my wants.
The fulness thereof, i.e. all those creatures wherewith it is replenished.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee,…. Or “say to thee” w; ask for anything
for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof; with which, was the former his case, he could satisfy himself; see Ps 24:1.
w “non dicam tibi”, V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus; “non dicerem tibi”, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Michaelis.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Psa 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fulness thereof.
Ver. 12. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee ] I would not employ thee to cater or purvey for me. But it befalls not God to be hungry, as not only heathens held, and, therefore, said that their Jove was gone into Ethiopia to be feasted, but some carnal Jews also, who conceived that a fat sacrifice was as acceptable to God as a fat dinner was to themselves (Homer. Lucian).
For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
world. Hebrew. tebel = the habitable world (Greek. oikoumene).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
world: Psa 24:1, Psa 24:2, Psa 115:15, Psa 115:16, Exo 19:5, Deu 10:14, Job 41:11, 1Co 10:26-28
fulness: Psa 104:24, Psa 145:15, Psa 145:16, Gen 1:11, Gen 1:12, Gen 1:28-30, Gen 8:17
Reciprocal: Exo 9:29 – that the earth Deu 33:16 – the earth Psa 89:11 – General Jer 47:2 – all that is therein Amo 6:8 – all that is therein Mic 1:2 – all that therein is