John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 131:2
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself ,.... Or "my soul" F15 נפשי "animam meam", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c.; ; behaved quietly and peaceably towards all men, even his inferiors in Saul's court and elsewhere, and had given no tokens of a restless, turbulent, and ambitious spirit; as well as behaved patiently under all his troubles and afflictions, reproaches and calumnies: or "if I have not" F16 אם לא "si non", Montanus; "male sit mihi si non", Tigurine version. ,... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 131:1-3
Here are two things which will be comforts to us:? I. Consciousness of our integrity. This was David's rejoicing, that his heart could witness for him that he had walked humbly with his God, notwithstanding the censures he was under and the temptations he was in. 1. He aimed not at a high condition, nor was he desirous of making a figure in the world, but, if God had so ordered, could have been well content to spend all his days, as he did in the beginning of them, in the sheep-folds. His own... read more