Parallel Verses
Amplified
I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word],
For Your testimonies are my meditation.
New American Standard Bible
For Your testimonies are my
King James Version
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
Holman Bible
because Your decrees are my meditation.
International Standard Version
I am more insightful than my teachers, because your decrees are my meditations.
A Conservative Version
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation.
American Standard Version
I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thy testimonies are my meditation.
Bible in Basic English
I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.
Darby Translation
I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation.
Julia Smith Translation
Above all those teaching me I understood, for thy testimonies a meditation to me.
King James 2000
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I have more insight than all my teachers, for your testimonies [are] my meditation.
Modern King James verseion
I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Your testimonies are my prayer.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my study.
NET Bible
I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.
New Heart English Bible
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
The Emphasized Bible
Beyond all my teachers, have I shown discretion, for, thy testimonies, are my meditation.
Webster
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
World English Bible
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
Youngs Literal Translation
Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation.
Themes
Meditation » The righteous delight in
The scriptures » Saints » Meditate in
Topics
References
American
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 119:99
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mem
98
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
For Your words are always with me.
I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word],
For Your testimonies are my meditation.
I understand more than the aged [who have not observed Your precepts],
Because I have observed and kept Your precepts.
Cross References
Hebrews 5:12
For though by this time you ought to be teachers [because of the time you have had to learn these truths], you actually need someone to teach you again the elementary principles of God’s word [from the beginning], and you have come to be continually in need of milk, not solid food.
Matthew 15:14
Matthew 23:24-36
2 Timothy 3:15-17
and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings (Hebrew Scriptures) which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus [surrendering your entire self to Him and having absolute confidence in His wisdom, power and goodness].
Deuteronomy 4:6-8
So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
2 Samuel 15:24-26
Now Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar [the priest] came up [and officiated] until all the people had finished passing from the city.
1 Chronicles 15:11-13
Then David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites—Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab,
2 Chronicles 29:15-36
They gathered their brothers (fellow Levites) together, consecrated themselves, and went in to cleanse the house of the Lord, as the king had commanded by the words of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 30:22
Hezekiah spoke
Psalm 119:24
Your testimonies also are my delight
And my counselors.
Jeremiah 2:8
“[Even] the priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
And those who deal with the law [given to Moses] did not know Me.
The rulers and shepherds also transgressed against Me,
And the prophets prophesied by [the authority and in the name of] Baal
And walked after [idolatrous] things that did not benefit [them].
Jeremiah 8:8-9
“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the Lord is with us [and we are learned in its language and teachings]’?
Behold, [the truth is that] the lying pen of the scribes
Has made the law into a lie [a mere code of ceremonial observances].
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus said,
Matthew 13:11
Jesus replied to them,
Matthew 15:6-9