1Ch 29:15 | KD | STEP | For we are strangers (as ), i.e., in this connection we have no property, no enduring possession, since God had only given them the usufruct of the land; and as of the land, so also of all the property of man, it is only a gift committed to us by God in usufruct. The truth that our life is a pilgrimage ( ), is presented to us by the brevity of life. As a shadow, so swiftly passing away, are our days upon the earth (cf. ; Psa 90:9., ; ). מקוה ואין, and there is no trust, scil. in the continuance of life (cf. ).

‏ 1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers (as Psa 39:13), i.e., in this connection we have no property, no enduring possession, since God had only given them the usufruct of the land; and as of the land, so also of all the property of man, it is only a gift committed to us by God in usufruct. The truth that our life is a pilgrimage (Heb 11:12-14), is presented to us by the brevity of life. As a shadow, so swiftly passing away, are our days upon the earth (cf. Job 8:9; Psa 90:9., Psa 102:12; Psa 144:4). מקוה ואין, and there is no trust, scil. in the continuance of life (cf. Jer 14:8).