Psalms 119:141
I am not important and people despise me, but I do not forget ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.
In Context
142You are righteous and you will be righteous forever, and your laws will never be changed.
Cross References
Psalms 22:6But you have not rescued me People despise me and consider that I am not a man; they think that I am as worthless as a worm! Everyone [HYP] scorns me and despises me.
Psalms 119:16I will be happy to obey ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►, and I will not forget your words.
Psalms 119:176I have wandered away from you like [SIM] a sheep that has become lost; search for me, because I have not forgotten ◄your commands/what you have commanded us►.
Proverbs 15:16Being poor and revering Yahweh is better than being rich and having a lot of troubles.
Proverbs 19:1Conducting our lives as we should even though we are poor is better than being foolish and telling lies.
Luke 6:20He looked [MTY] at his disciples and said, “ God is pleased with you who know that you lack what he wants you to have; he will allow you to be the people whose lives he rules over.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:141
140 Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. Here is, 1. David's great affection for the word of God: Thy servant loves it. Every good man, being a servant of God, loves the word of God, because it lets him know his Master's will and directs him in his Master's work. Wherever there is grace there is a warm attachment to the word of God. 2. The ground and reason of that affection; he saw it to be very pure, and therefore he loved it. Our love to the word of God is then an evidence of our love to God… Read the whole commentary →