I [am] small and despised,.... Or, "I have been" . Some versions render it "young" ; as if it had respect to the time of his anointing by Samuel, when he was overlooked and despised in his father's family, 1Sa 16:11; but the word here used is not expressive of age, but of state, condition, and circumstances; and the meaning is, that he was little in his own esteem, and in the esteem of men, and was despised; and that on account of religion, in which he was a type of Christ, Ps 22:6; and which is the common lot of good men, who are treated by the world as the faith of it, and the offscouring of all things;[yet] do not I forget thy precepts; to observe and keep them: the ill treatment of men on account of religion did not cause him to forsake it, or to leave the ways, word, and worship of God; see Ps 119:83.
ykna "ego fui, et adhuc sum", Michaelis. ryeu newterov, Sept. "adolescentulus", V.