Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
In Context
99I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
101I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
Cross References
1 Kings 12:6King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”
Job 15:9What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
Job 32:4Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were older than he.
Job 32:9It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.
Psalms 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
Matthew 7:24“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:99-101
98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. We have here an account of David's learning, not that of the Egyptians, but of the Israelites indeed. I. The good method by which he got it. In his youth he minded business in the country as a shepherd; from his youth he minded business in the court and camp.… Read the whole commentary →