Psalm 119:100 Parallel Translations
NASB: I understand more than the aged, Because I have observed Your precepts. (NASB ©1995)
GWT: I have more wisdom than those with many years of experience, because I have obeyed your guiding principles.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
ASV: I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept thy precepts.
BBE: I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.
DBY: I understand more than the aged, because I have observed thy precepts.
ERV: I understand more than the aged, because I have kept thy precepts.
JPS: I understand more than mine elders, because I have keep Thy precepts.
WBS: I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
WEB: I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
YLT: Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.
Psalm 119:100 Cross References
XREF:Job 32:7 "I thought age should speak, And increased years should teach wisdom.

Psalm 119:22 Take away reproach and contempt from me, For I observe Your testimonies.

Psalm 119:56 This has become mine, That I observe Your precepts. Heth. (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
WES: 119:100 Because - The practice of religion is the best way to understand it.
MHC: 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.
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