Psalms 119:104
I have understanding from Your precepts, || Therefore I have hated every false path!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
In Context
103How sweet Your saying has been to my palate, || Above honey to my mouth.
105[NUN] Your word [is] a lamp to my foot, || And a light to my path.
Cross References
Job 32:9The multitude are not wise, || Nor do the aged understand judgment.
Psalms 97:10You who love YHWH, hate evil, || He is keeping the souls of His saints, || He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 119:29Turn aside the way of falsehood from me || And favor me with Your law.
Psalms 119:98Your command makes me wiser than my enemies, || For it [is] before me for all time.
Psalms 119:128Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, || I have hated every path of falsehood!
Proverbs 8:13The fear of YHWH [is] to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, || And a contrary mouth, I have hated.
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 →