Psalms Chapter 90 verse 12 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 90:12

So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
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BBE Psalms 90:12

So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
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DARBY Psalms 90:12

So teach [us] to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.
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KJV Psalms 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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WBT Psalms 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
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WEB Psalms 90:12

So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
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YLT Psalms 90:12

To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
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Psalms 90 : 12 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerses 12-17. - From complaint the psalmist, in conclusion, turns to prayer - prayer for his people rather than for himself. His petitions are, (1) that God will enable his people to take to heart the lessons which the brevity of life should teach (ver. 12); (2) that he will cease from his anger, and relent concerning them (ver. 13); (3) that he will once more shower his mercies upon them, and cause their affliction to be swallowed up in gladness (vers. 14, 15); . . .

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Number our days.--This verse as it stands literally gives to allot, or in allotting (see Isaiah 65:12), our days, so teach, and we will cause to come the heart wisdom. The last clause, if intelligible at all, must mean "that we may offer a wise heart," and the natural way to understand the verse is to make God, not man, as in the Authorised Version, the reckoner of the days. "In allotting our days thus make us know (i.e., make us know the power of Thine anger), in order that we may present a wise heart."The verse must evidently be taken in close connection. with the preceding, or the point of the petition is lost, and though the ordinary rendering, "Teach us to number our days," has given birth to a number of sayings which might be quoted in illustration, it is neither in itself very intelligible, nor, except by one instance in later Hebrew, can it be supported as a rendering of the original.