Psalms 119:104
From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false path.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
In Context
103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth!
105NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Cross References
Job 32:9It is not the great that are wise; neither do the aged understand judgment.
Psalms 97:10Ye that love Jehovah, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints, he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 119:29Remove from me the way of falsehood, and graciously grant me thy law.
Psalms 119:98Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.
Psalms 119:128Therefore I regard all [thy] precepts concerning all things to be right: I hate every false path.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:104-105
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. Here is, 1. The wonderful pleasure and delight which David took in the word of God; it was sweet to his taste, sweeter than honey. There is such a thing as a spiritual taste, an inward savour and relish of divine things, such an evidence of them to ourselves, by experience, as we cannot give to others. We have heard him ourselves, John iv. 42 . To this… Read the whole commentary →