Psalms 89:9

Verse 9. As a spider. As frail and weak as a spider’s web; and miserable withal, whilst, like a spider, we spend our bowels in weaving webs to catch flies. Challoner.—Meditabuntur is here used in a passive sense. Tirinus.—Hebrew “we have spent our years like one speaking a word.” Saint Jerome—When he has done, the sound is no more: so their memory has perished with a sound. Psalms 9:8. Bible.—Hebrew Chal. and so forth do not mention the spider: Yet it seems to have been originally in the text, as it is recognized by the Syr. Septuagint and the other Greek interpreters, and makes the sense more complete. Calmet.—The transcribers might more easily omit than the Septuagint and so forth could insert this word. Bert.