Psalms 119:73
JOD Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
In Context
72The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
74Your worshippers will see me and be glad; because my hope has been in your word.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:12Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.
Job 10:8Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.
Job 32:8But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.
Psalms 100:3Be certain that the Lord is God; it is he who has made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food.
Psalms 119:34Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law; going after it with all my heart.
Psalms 119:144The righteousness of your unchanging word is eternal; give me wisdom so that I may have life.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:73
72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. This is a reason why David reckoned that when by his afflictions he learned God's statutes, and the profit did so much counterbalance the loss, he was really a gainer by them; for God's law, which he got acquaintance with by his affliction, was better to him than all the gold and silver which he lost by his affliction. 1. David had but a little of the word of God in comparison with what we have, yet see how highly he valued it; how… Read the whole commentary →