Psalm 119:98
New International Version
Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.

New Living Translation
Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are my constant guide.

English Standard Version
Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.

Berean Standard Bible
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.

King James Bible
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.

New King James Version
You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; For they are ever with me.

New American Standard Bible
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are ever mine.

NASB 1995
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are ever mine.

NASB 1977
Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are ever mine.

Legacy Standard Bible
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are mine forever.

Amplified Bible
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For Your words are always with me.

Christian Standard Bible
Your command makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is always with me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.

American Standard Version
Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; For they are ever with me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Make me wiser than my enemies because I have kept your commandments.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou hast made me wiser than mine enemies in thy commandment; for it is mine for ever.

Contemporary English Version
Your laws never leave my mind, and they make me much wiser than my enemies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me.

English Revised Version
Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, because your commandments are always with me.

Good News Translation
Your commandment is with me all the time and makes me wiser than my enemies.

International Standard Version
Your commands make me wiser than my adversaries, since they are always with me.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies: For they are ever with me.

Literal Standard Version
Your command makes me wiser than my enemies, | For it [is] before me for all time.

Majority Standard Bible
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.

New American Bible
Your commandment makes me wiser than my foes, as it is forever with me.

NET Bible
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for I am always aware of them.

New Revised Standard Version
Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is always with me.

New Heart English Bible
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me.

World English Bible
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

Young's Literal Translation
Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it is before me to the age.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
97Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation. 98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me. 99I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.…

Cross References
2 Timothy 3:15
From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Deuteronomy 4:6
Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the peoples, who will hear of all these statutes and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."

Psalm 19:7
The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!

Psalm 119:130
The unfolding of Your words gives light; it informs the simple.


Treasury of Scripture

You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me.

through

Psalm 119:104
Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

Deuteronomy 4:6,8
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people…

1 Samuel 18:5,14,30
And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants…

they are ever.

Psalm 119:11,30,105
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee…

James 1:25
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

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Psalm 119
1. This psalm contains various prayers, praises, and professions of obedience.
2. Aleph.
9. Beth
17. Gimel
25. Daleth
33. He
41. Waw
49. Zayin
57. Heth
65. Teth
73. Yodh
81. Kaph
89. Lamedh
97. Mem
105. Nun
113. Samekh
121. Ayin
129. Pe
137. Tsadhe
145. Qoph
153. Resh
161. Sin and Shin
169. Taw














MEM.

(98) Better, Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies. The same correspondence of wisdom with loyal obedience to the Law is found in the Book of Proverbs.

Verse 98. - Thou through thy command-meets but made me wiser than mine enemies (comp. Deuteronomy 4:6, 8). The knowledge of God's Law gives a wisdom and an understanding infinitely above the cunning and craft of worldly men. If to the knowledge is added a faithful and habitual obedience, a wisdom is attained which can be reached in no other way (see ver. 100). For they are ever with me. Always present to my thoughts, as my rule of life.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Your commandments
מִצְוֺתֶ֑ךָ (miṣ·wō·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4687: Commandment

make me wiser
תְּחַכְּמֵ֣נִי (tə·ḥak·kə·mê·nî)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 2449: To be wise

than my enemies,
מֵ֭אֹ֣יְבַי (mê·’ō·yə·ḇay)
Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary

for
כִּ֖י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

they
הִיא־ (hî-)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

are always
לְעוֹלָ֣ם (lə·‘ō·w·lām)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always

with me.
לִֽי׃ (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew


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