Psalms 119:51
The presumptuous have held me too greatly in derision: yet have I not departed away from thy law.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
In Context
50This is my comfort in my affliction, that thy promise hath revived me.
52I remembered thy decrees [which were] from olden times, O Lord, and thus comforted myself.
Cross References
Job 23:11On his steps my foot hath held fast: his way have I kept, and swerved not.
Psalms 119:21Thou hast rebuked the accursed proud, who go erringly astray from thy commandments.
Psalms 119:69The presumptuous have invented falsehoods against me; but I will with all my heart indeed keep thy precepts.
Psalms 123:3Be gracious unto us, O Lord! be gracious unto us; for we are overburdened with contempt.
Isaiah 42:4He shall not become fatigued and not be faint, till he have established justice on earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:51
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. Here is David's experience of benefit by the word. 1. As a means of his sanctification: " Thy word has quickened me. It made me alive when I was dead in sin; it has many a time made me lively when I was dead in duty; it has quickened me to that which is good when I was backward and averse to it, and it has quickened me in that which is good when I was cold and indifferent." 2. Therefore as a means of his consolation when he was in affliction… Read the whole commentary →