Psalms 119:98
Because I know ◄your commands/what you have commanded►, and because I think about them all the time, I have become wiser than my enemies.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
In Context
97I love your laws very much. I ◄meditate on/think about► them all during the day.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:6Obey them faithfully because, if you do that, you will show the people of other nations that you are very wise. When they hear about all these laws, they will say, ‘The people of this great nation of Israel are certainly very wise [DOU]!’
1 Samuel 18:5David went wherever Saul sent him. And whatever Saul told him to do, David did it very successfully. As a result, Saul appointed David to be a commander in the army. All the officers and other men in the army ◄approved of/were very pleased with► that.
1 Samuel 18:30The Philistine armies repeatedly came to fight the Israelis, but every time they fought, David and his soldiers were more successful than any of Saul’s other army commanders. As a result, David became very famous.
Psalms 119:30I have decided that I will faithfully/always obey you; I have ◄paid attention to/heeded► ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us►.
Proverbs 2:6Yahweh is the one who gives us wisdom. He is the one who tells us things that we need to know and understand.
Colossians 3:16And continue to let the message about Christ govern/direct all you think and do, as you very wisely teach and warn one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs (OR, songs that God’s Spirit gives you), while you sincerely and thankfully sing to God.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:98
13. MEM. 97 MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Here is, 1. David's inexpressible love to the word of God: O how love I thy law! He protests his affection to the word of God with a holy vehemency; he found that love to it in his heart which, considering the corruption of his nature and the temptations of the world, he could not but wonder at, and at that grace which had wrought it in him. He not only loved the promises, but loved the law, and delighted in it after the inner man. 2. An… Read the whole commentary →