Psalms 119:100

Psalms 119:100 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
• New International Version (NIV)I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I understand more than the ancients, Because I keep Your precepts.

Context of Psalms 119:100

98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For Your words are always with me. 99I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word], For Your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged [who have not observed Your precepts], Because I have observed and kept Your precepts. 101I have restrained my feet from every evil way, That I may keep Your word. 102I have not turned aside from Your ordinances, For You Yourself have taught me.

Psalms 119:100 word by word

מִזְּקֵנִ֥ים אֶתְבּוֹנָ֑ן כִּ֖י פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I understandבִּיןbîyn · to understandH995
• more than the ancientsזָקֵןzâqên · oldH2205
• because I keepנָצַרnâtsar · to watchH5341
• thy preceptsפִּקּוּדpiqqûd piqqûd · preceptH6490

Cross-references for Psalms 119:100

• 1 Kings 12:6King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served and advised his father Solomon while he was still alive and said, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
• Job 12:12With the aged [you say] is wisdom, And with long life is understanding.
• Job 15:9What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not equally clear to us?
• Job 32:4Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were years older than he.
• Psalms 119:10With all my heart I have sought You, [inquiring of You and longing for You]; Do not let me wander from Your commandments [neither through ignorance nor by willful disobedience].
• Job 28:28But to man He said, ‘Behold, the reverential and worshipful fear of the Lord—that is wisdom; And to depart from evil is understanding.’ ”
• Jeremiah 8:8“How can you say, ‘We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us [and we are learned in its language and teachings]’? Behold, [the truth is that] the lying pen of the scribes Has made the law into a lie [a mere code of ceremonial observances].
• Matthew 7:24“So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, will be like a wise man [a far-sighted, practical, and sensible man] who built his house on the rock.
• James 3:13Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him by his good conduct show his [good] deeds with the gentleness and humility of true wisdom.

Commentaries on Psalms 119:100

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 100I understand more than the ancients - God had revealed to him more of that hidden wisdom which was in his law than he had done to any of his predecessors. And this was most literally true of David, who spoke more fully about Christ than any who had gone before him; or, indeed, followed after him. His compositions are, I had almost said, a sublime Gospel.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 100I understand more than the ancients - Hebrew, The old men. It does not refer, as the word “ancients” does with us, to the people of former times, but to aged men. They have treasured up wisdom. They have had the advantage of experience, of study, and of observation. They, therefore, like teachers, become a standard by which we measure our own attainments, as the boy hardly hopes to gain that amount of knowledge which he observes in people who are…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 97-104Verses 97-104 What we love, we love to think of. All true wisdom is from God. A good man carries his Bible with him, if not in his hands, yet in his head and in his heart. By meditation on God's testimonies we understand more than our teachers, when we understand our own hearts. The written word is a more sure guide to heaven, than all the fathers, the teachers, and ancients of the church. We cannot, with any comfort or boldness, attend God in holy…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 97-102make me wiser: God’s word provides wisdom and perspective. God is the true source of wisdom.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 98-10098-100. of knowledge, both of the matter of all useful, moral truth, and an experience of its application. wiser than mine enemies--with all their carnal cunning (De 4:6, 8). they are ever with me--The Hebrew is, rather singular, "it is ever with me"; the commandments forming ONE complete whole, Thy law.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 119:100

• Instruction

In the dictionaries

• Break
• Comfort
• Delight
• Depart
• Establish
• Hallel
• Horror
• Incline
• Judgment
• Judgments of God

Commentaries on Psalms 119

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings