Psalms 119:98
Wiser than my enemy doth thy commandment make me; for it is perpetually with me.
Leeser Tanakh
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. Oh how do I love thy law! all the day is it my meditation.
99Above all my teachers have I obtained intelligence; for thy testimonies are my meditation.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the nations, that shall hear all these statutes, and they will say, Nothing but a wise and understanding people is this great nation.
1 Samuel 18:5And David went out; whithersoever Saul used to send him, he was successful; and Saul set him over the men of war; and he was accepted in the eyes of all the people, and also in the eyes of the servants of Saul.
1 Samuel 18:30And the princes of the Philistines went forth; and it came to pass, whenever they went forth, that David was more successful than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was highly prized.
Psalms 119:30The way of truth have I chosen: thy ordinances have I set [before me].
Proverbs 2:6For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.
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 →