Verse 16
PRAISE OF THE LORD AS MAN'S SOLE HELP
"Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Unless Jehovah had been my help,
My soul had soon dwelt in silence.
When I said, My foot slippeth;
Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
In the multitude of my thoughts within me
The comforts delight my soul."
"Who will rise up ... Who will stand up?" (Psalms 94:16). "These questions mean that, "No man would rise up and succor him in his conflict with evil-doers."[11]
"My soul had soon dwelt in silence" (Psalms 94:17). "Silence" is one of many synonyms for Sheol, the Pit, Abbadon, or Destruction. The meaning is that his enemies would have killed him, if God had not aided him.
"I said, "My foot slippeth" ... Jehovah held me up" (Psalms 94:18). Every child of God can bear witness to similar providential help in the midst of assailing temptations.
"In the multitude of my thoughts within me" (Psalms 94:19). This is very difficult to understand, as it appears here; but Barnes gave the meaning.
"The idea seems to be that in the great number of thoughts that passed through his mind, many of them perplexing, vain, profitless, or having no aim or purpose, there was one class of thoughts that gave him comfort; and those were the ones which pertained to God."[12]
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