Psalm 119:100
100 I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.
Other Translations of Psalm 119:100
King James Version
100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
English Standard Version
100 I understand more than the aged,
The Message
100 I've become wiser than the wise old sages simply by doing what you tell me.
New King James Version
100 I understand more than the ancients, Because I keep Your precepts.
New Living Translation
100 I am even wiser than my elders, for I have kept your commandments.
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Psalm 119:100
Commentary on Psalm 119:97-104
(Read Psalm 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, attend God in holy duties, while under guilt, or in any by-way. It was Divine grace in his heart, that enabled the psalmist to receive these instructions. The soul has its tastes as well as the body. Our relish for the word of God will be greatest, when that for the world and the flesh is least. The way of sin is a wrong way; and the more understanding we get by the precepts of God, the more rooted will be our hatred of sin; and the more ready we are in the Scriptures, the better furnished we are with answers to temptation.