Psalms 119:51
The proud have utterly scorned me, From Thy law I have not turned aside.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
In Context
50This [is] my comfort in mine affliction, That Thy saying hath quickened me.
52I remembered Thy judgments of old, O Jehovah, And I comfort myself.
Cross References
Job 23:11On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,
Psalms 119:21Thou hast rebuked the cursed proud, Who are erring from Thy commands.
Psalms 119:69Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.
Psalms 123:3Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt,
Isaiah 42:4He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.
Luke 16:14And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:51
50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. Here is David's experience of benefit by the word. 1. As a means of his sanctification: " Thy word has quickened me. It made me alive when I was dead in sin; it has many a time made me lively when I was dead in duty; it has quickened me to that which is good when I was backward and averse to it, and it has quickened me in that which is good when I was cold and indifferent." 2. Therefore as a means of his consolation when he was in affliction… Read the whole commentary →