Psalms 119:104
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
Psalms 119:104 in other translations
| BSB | I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way. |
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| WEB | Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN |
| ASV | Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way. נ NUN. |
| YLT | From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path! |
| DARBY | From thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false path. |
| BBE | Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way. |
| Webster | Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. |
What does Psalms 119:104 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 119:101-104
101-104. Avoidance of sinful courses is both the effect and means of increasing in divine knowledge (compare Psa 19:10). NUN. (Psa 119:105-112).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 119:97-104
What we love, we love to think of. All true wisdom is from God. A good man carries his Bible with him, if not in his hands, yet in his head and in his heart. By meditation on God's testimonies we understand more than our teachers, when we understand our own hearts. The written word is a more sure guide to heaven, than all the fathers, the teachers, and ancients of the church. We cannot, with any comfort or boldness…
Psalms 119:104 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 119:104
- Psalms 119:128
Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
- Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
- Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
- Psalms 119:98
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
- Psalms 97:10
Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
- Romans 12:9
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
- Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
- Psalms 101:3
I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
- Amos 5:15
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the Lord God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.
- Matthew 7:13
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
- Psalms 36:4
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
- Psalms 119:29-30
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
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Context
- Psalms 119:103
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
- Psalms 119:104
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
- Psalms 119:105
נ NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Psalms 119:104 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | De tus mandamientos he adquirido inteligencia: por tanto he aborrecido todo camino de mentira. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Par tes préceptes je suis devenu intelligent; c’est pourquoi je hais toute voie de mensonge. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Aus deinen Vorschriften empfange ich Einsicht; darum hasse ich jeden Lügenpfad. |