Psalms 119:98
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
In Context
97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
99I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
1 Samuel 18:5David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
1 Samuel 18:30Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.
Psalms 119:30I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
Proverbs 2:6For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
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 →