Psalms 119:98
Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
In Context
97MEM O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.
99I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:6So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.
1 Samuel 18:5And David went wherever Saul sent him, and did wisely: and Saul put him at the head of his men of war, and this was pleasing to all the people as well as to Saul's servants.
1 Samuel 18:30Then the rulers of the Philistines went out to war: and whenever they went out, David did more wisely than all the other servants of Saul, so that his name became greatly honoured.
Psalms 119:30I have taken the way of faith: I have kept your decisions before me.
Proverbs 2:6For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:98
13. MEM. 97 MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Here is, 1. David's inexpressible love to the word of God: O how love I thy law! He protests his affection to the word of God with a holy vehemency; he found that love to it in his heart which, considering the corruption of his nature and the temptations of the world, he could not but wonder at, and at that grace which had wrought it in him. He not only loved the promises, but loved the law, and delighted in it after the inner man. 2. An… Read the whole commentary →