Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 90:4

4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past , and as a watch in the night .

If we should now live so long as some of our Progenitors well-nigh did. As he compared mans duration with Gods in respect of its beginning, v. 2. so here he compareth them in respect of the end, or continuance.

In thy account, and therefore in truth; which is opposed to the partial and false judgment of men who think time long because they do not understand Eternity: Or, in comparison of thy endless duration.

Which is emphatically added; because time seems long when it is to come, but when it is past and men look backward upon it, it seems very short and contemptible, and men value one hour to come more than a thousand years which are past.

Which lasted but for three or four hours; for the night was antiently divided into three or four Watches. See Iudg. 7. 19. Mark 6. 48. and 13. 35. Luk. 12. 38.

Which also hath its weight: for the silence and slumbers of the night makes time seem shorter than it doth in the day.

Marginal references: 2 Pet. 3. 8.; Or, when he hath passed them.