God’s Word Translation
Psalms 119:100
100I have more wisdom than those with many years of experience, because I have obeyed your guiding principles.
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, because your commandments are always with me. 99I have more insight than all my teachers, because your written instructions are in my thoughts. I have more wisdom than those with many years of experience, because I have obeyed your guiding principles. 101I have kept my feet ⌞from walking⌟ on any evil path in order to obey your word. 102I have not neglected your regulations, because you have taught me.
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מִזְּקֵנִ֥ים אֶתְבּוֹנָ֑ן כִּ֖י פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 119:100
- 1 Kings 12:6King Rehoboam sought advice from the older leaders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive. He asked, “What do you advise? How should I respond to these people?”
- Job 12:12“Wisdom is with the ancient one. The one who has had many days has insight.
- Job 15:9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t?
- Job 32:4Elihu waited as they spoke to Job because they were older than he was.
- Psalms 119:10I wholeheartedly searched for you. Do not let me wander away from your commandments.
- Job 28:28So he told humans, ‘The fear of the Lord is wisdom! To stay away from evil is understanding.’ ”
- Jeremiah 8:8“ ‘How can you say that you are wise and that you have the Lord’s teachings? The scribes have used their pens to turn these teachings into lies.
- Matthew 7:24“Therefore, everyone who hears what I say and obeys it will be like a wise person who built a house on rock.
- James 3:13Do any of you have wisdom and insight? Show this by living the right way with the humility that comes from 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
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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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