Psalms 119:101
I restrained my feet from every evil path, || So that I keep Your word.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
In Context
100Above elderly—I understand more, || For I have kept Your precepts.
102I did not turn aside from Your judgments, || For You have directed me.
Cross References
Psalms 18:23And I am perfect with Him, || And I keep myself from my iniquity.
Psalms 119:59I have reckoned my ways, || And turn back my feet to Your testimonies.
Psalms 119:126Time for YHWH to work! They have made Your law void.
Isaiah 53:6All of us, like sheep, have wandered, || Man has turned to his own way, || And YHWH has laid on Him the punishment of us all.
Jeremiah 2:36What? You are very vile to repeat your way, || You are even ashamed of Egypt, || As you have been ashamed of Asshur,
1 Peter 2:1Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:99-101
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. We have here an account of David's learning, not that of the Egyptians, but of the Israelites indeed. I. The good method by which he got it. In his youth he minded business in the country as a shepherd; from his youth he minded business in the court and camp.… Read the whole commentary →