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Psalms 119:100
100I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.
Psalms 119:100 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I am even wiser than my elders, for I have kept your commandments.
Context of Psalms 119:100
98Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies. 99I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts. 101I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word. 102I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me.
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מִזְּקֵנִ֥ים אֶתְבּוֹנָ֑ן כִּ֖י פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 119:100
- 1 Kings 12:6Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.
- Job 12:12Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
- Job 15:9What do you know that we do not know? What insights do you have that we do not have?
- Job 32:4Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he.
- Psalms 119:10I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.
- Job 28:28And he said to the human race, “The fear of the Lord—that is wisdom, and to shun evil is understanding.”
- Jeremiah 8:8“ ‘How can you say, “We are wise, for we have the law of the Lord,” when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?
- Matthew 7:24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
- James 3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in 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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