Psalms 119:99
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
Psalms 119:99 in other translations
| BSB | I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation. |
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| WEB | I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. |
| ASV | I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thy testimonies are my meditation. |
| YLT | Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation. |
| DARBY | I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation. |
| BBE | I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word. |
| Webster | I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. |
What does Psalms 119:99 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 119:98-100
98-100. of knowledge, both of the matter of all useful, moral truth, and an experience of its application. wiser than mine enemies--with all their carnal cunning (De 4:6, 8). they are ever with me--The Hebrew is, rather singular, "it is ever with me"; the commandments forming ONE complete whole, Thy law.
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 119:99 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 119:99
- Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
- Matthew 13:11
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
- Psalms 119:24
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
- 2 Timothy 3:15-17
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
- Matthew 23:24-36
Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. …
- 2 Chronicles 29:15-36
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord. And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron. Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end. Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof. …
- Hebrews 5:12
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
- Jeremiah 8:8-9
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?
- Jeremiah 2:8
The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
- 2 Chronicles 30:22
And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the Lord: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.
- 1 Chronicles 15:11-13
And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it. For because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.
- Matthew 15:6-9
And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
De 4:6-8; 2Sa 15:24-26; 1Ch 15:11-13; 2Ch 29:15-36; 30:22; Jer 2:8
Jer 8:8,9; Mt 11:25; 13:11; 15:6-9,14; 23:24-36; Heb 5:12
for thy.
24; 2Ti 3:15-17
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Context
- Psalms 119:98
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
- Psalms 119:99
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
- Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Psalms 119:99 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Más que todos mis enseñadores he entendido: porque tus testimonios son mi meditación. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | J’ai plus d’intelligence que tous ceux qui m’enseignent, parce que je médite tes préceptes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Verständiger bin ich als alle meine Lehrer, denn deine Zeugnisse sind mein Sinnen. |