Psalms 119:72
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
In Context
71It was good for me to be humbled, that I should learn your statutes.
73Your hands have made me and fashioned me; make me wise to learn your commandments.
Cross References
Psalms 19:11By them is your servant warned; who keeps them has rich reward.
Psalms 119:111In your charges are my everlasting inheritance, they are the joy of my heart.
Psalms 119:162Over your word I rejoice as one who finds great spoil.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:72
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. See here, 1. That it has been the lot of the best saints to be afflicted. The proud and the wicked lived in pomp and pleasure, while David, though he kept close to God and his duty, was still in affliction. Waters of a full cup are wrung out to God's people, Ps. lxxiii. 10 . 2. That it has been the advantage of God's people to be afflicted. David could speak experimentally: It was good for me; many a good lesson he had learnt by his… Read the whole commentary →