פירוש על תהילים 4:3

Sons of man The sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who are called man. About Abraham it is stated (in Gen. 20:7): “Restore the man’s wife.” About Isaac it is stated (ibid. 24:65): “Who is that man...?” About Jacob, it is stated (ibid. 25:27): “and Jacob was a plain man.”

how long will my honor be disgraced How long will you disgrace me? (I Sam. 20:30): “that you choose the son of Jesse”; (ibid. 22:8), “when my son made a covenant with the son of Jesse”; (ibid. verse 9), “I saw the son of Jesse”; (ibid. 25:10), “Who is David, and who is the son of Jesse?” I have no name.

How long shall my honour – i.e. my soul, as he says in the previous Psalm, "Many say of my soul"; or the interpretation of my honour

will you constantly seek lies Will you chase to find lies, e.g., the Ziphites, who inform on me, yet show me friendliness, and other informers like them who were in Saul’s time (I Sam. 23:19): “Is David not hiding...in the hill of Hachilah?” And so, many.

be dishonour? – is that I am king and ye are putting me to dishonour and making me a fugitive from my kingdom:

Ye love a vain (thing) – a thing that shall not be established: that is, the kingdom of Absalom.

And seek after falsehood. Selah: – And this is falsehood, a thing that has no permanence, as (in the passage) (Is. 58:11) "Whose waters fail not."