Psalms 119:104
I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
In Context
103How sweet are Your words to my taste—sweeter than honey in my mouth!
105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Cross References
Job 32:9It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.
Psalms 97:10Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 119:29Remove me from the path of deceit and graciously grant me Your law.
Psalms 119:98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.
Psalms 119:128Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.
Proverbs 8:13To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.
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 →