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Psalms 119:100
100I am even wiser than my elders, for I have kept your commandments.
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 commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are my constant guide. 99Yes, I have more insight than my teachers, for I am always thinking of your laws. I am even wiser than my elders, for I have kept your commandments. 101I have refused to walk on any evil path, so that I may remain obedient to your word. 102I haven’t turned away from your regulations, for you have taught me well.
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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 discussed the matter with the older men who had counseled his father, Solomon. “What is your advice?” he asked. “How should I answer these people?”
- Job 12:12Wisdom belongs to the aged, and understanding to the old.
- Job 15:9What do you know that we don’t? What do you understand that we do not?
- Job 32:4Elihu had waited for the others to speak to Job because they were older than he.
- Psalms 119:10I have tried hard to find you— don’t let me wander from your commands.
- Job 28:28And this is what he says to all humanity: ‘The fear of the Lord is true wisdom; to forsake evil is real understanding.’”
- Jeremiah 8:8“‘How can you say, “We are wise because we have the word of the Lord,” when your teachers have twisted it by writing lies?
- Matthew 7:24“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.
- James 3:13If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works 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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