Commentaire de citation sur Les Psaumes 38:4

Your teeth. Are fine and white and arranged in their proper order like wool and like the order of a flock of ewes, selected from the rest of the flock by count and number,¹⁴Corresponding to “שעלו מן הרחצה,” i.e., “who have come up from the washing.” and are assigned to a clever and capable shepherd to be careful with their wool, because they make them into fine woolen garments. They watch them from the time of birth, that the wool should not become soiled, and they wash them daily.¹⁵Tehillim 38:4.

All of which are perfect. An expression of perfection, [as in,] “There is no perfection מְתם in my flesh,”¹⁶See Bamidbar 31:1-7. i.e., “whole” תְּמִימוֹת=מַתְאִימוֹת, entires in O.F.

מְתוֹם A place containing soundness (תּוֹם ‘ soundness or integrity’). The form of the word is irregular, for it should be מָתוֹם like מָעוֹז (25:4). The same form is used Ps. 38:4. R. Moses Hakkohen says that מְתוֹם is the same as מְתִים ‘ people ;’ he quotes a parallel, Judges 20:48, and explains our verse, there is nothing in them that is good for man; but this explanation is rather far-fetched.