Psalms 119:71
[It is] good for me that I have been afflicted, || That I might learn Your statutes.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
In Context
70Their heart has been thick as fat, || I have delighted in Your law.
72The Law of Your mouth [is] better to me || Than thousands of gold and silver!
Cross References
Psalms 94:12O the blessedness of the man || Whom You instruct, O YAH, || And teach him out of Your law,
Isaiah 27:9Therefore the iniquity of Jacob is covered by this, || And this [is] all the fruit—To take away his sin, || In his setting all the stones of an altar, || As chalkstones beaten in pieces, || They do not rise—Asherim and images.
Hebrews 12:10For they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were disciplining, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:70-71
69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. 70 Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law. David here tells us how he was affected as to the proud and wicked people that were about him. 1. He did not fear their malice, nor was he by it deterred from his duty: They have forged a lie against me. Thus they aimed to take away his good name. Nay, all we have in the world, even life itself, may be brought into danger by those who make no conscience of… Read the whole commentary →