Psalms 109:8

8. Let his days be few His days shall be few. A prediction and a warning founded on the justice of God, by which “bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days.” Psalms 55:23. The verbs in this last passage quoted, and in the text, are in the same conjugation and tense, and should be rendered alike, in the declarative future, not the imperative. The full meaning is: “As he intended to have shortened my days, so let his days be few.” Hengstenberg.

Let another take his office Quoted verbatim from the Septuagint, and applied to Judas Iscariot, Acts 1:20. The word “office” means, a superior office, that of oversight; Greek, επισκοπη , episcope, English version, (Acts 1:20,) bishopric. See Numbers 1:50; Nehemiah 12:44; Jeremiah 1:10. Doeg, David’s enemy, held the office of overseer of Saul’s herdsmen, an important position, (1 Samuel 21:7,) and it would seem, also, that of a prime minister of his court. 1 Samuel 22:9. High in office and base in character, he was a fit type of the arch traitor who “by transgression fell.” Acts 1:25