English Standard Version
Psalms 119:104
104Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:104 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
- New International Version (NIV)I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Through Your precepts I get understanding; Therefore I hate every false way.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Your commandments give me understanding; no wonder I hate every false way of life.
Context of Psalms 119:104
102I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me. 103How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. 105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. 106I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to keep your righteous rules.
Read all of Psalms 119Psalms 119:104 word by word
מִפִּקּוּדֶ֥יךָ אֶתְבּוֹנָ֑ן עַל־כֵּ֝֗ן שָׂנֵ֤אתִי׀ כָּל־אֹ֬רַח שָֽׁקֶר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:104
- Psalms 119:98Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.
- Psalms 119:128Therefore I consider all your precepts to be right; I hate every false way.
- Psalms 36:4He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.
- Psalms 97:10O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Psalms 101:3I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.
- Proverbs 8:13The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
- Amos 5:15Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
- Romans 12:9Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
- Psalms 119:29Put false ways far from me and graciously teach me your law!
- Proverbs 14:12There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
- Matthew 7:13"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.
Commentaries on Psalms 119:104
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 104Through thy precepts I get understanding - Spiritual knowledge increases while we tread in the path of obedience. Obedience is the grand means of growth and instruction. Obedience trades with the talent of grace, and thus grace becomes multiplied.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 104Through thy precepts I get understanding - A true understanding; a correct view of things; a knowledge of thee, of myself, of the human character, of the destiny of man, of the way of salvation - the best, and the only essential knowledge for man. This knowledge the psalmist obtained from the “precepts” of God; that is, all that God had communicated by revelation. This passage expresses in few words what had been said more at length in Psalm 119:98-100…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. 103-104Wisdom is better than the finest food (Psalm 19:10; 81:16). The psalmist had already turned away from the false promises of foolishness (see Psalm 119:18, 78, 86, 163).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 101-104101-104. Avoidance of sinful courses is both the effect and means of increasing in divine knowledge (compare Psa 19:10). NUN. (Psa 119:105-112).Read the comment
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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
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