Parallel Verses
NET Bible
I am more discerning than those older than I, for I observe your precepts.
New American Standard Bible
Because I have
King James Version
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
Holman Bible
because I obey Your precepts.
International Standard Version
I have more common sense than the elders, for I observe your precepts.
A Conservative Version
I understand more than the aged because I have kept thy precepts.
American Standard Version
I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept thy precepts.
Amplified
I understand more than the aged [who have not observed Your precepts],
Because I have observed and kept Your precepts.
Bible in Basic English
I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.
Darby Translation
I understand more than the aged, because I have observed thy precepts.
Julia Smith Translation
I shall understand above the old men, for I watched thy charges.
King James 2000
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep your precepts.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I understand more than [the] elders, for I keep your precepts.
Modern King James verseion
I understand more than the old men, because I keep Your Commandments.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, I am wiser than the aged, for I keep thy commandments.
New Heart English Bible
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
The Emphasized Bible
Beyond the elders, will I show understanding, for, thy precepts, have I observed.
Webster
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
World English Bible
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
Youngs Literal Translation
Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 119:100
Verse Info
Context Readings
Cross References
1 Kings 12:6-15
King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, "How do you advise me to answer these people?"
Job 12:12
Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?
Job 15:9-10
What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand?
Job 28:28
And he said to mankind, 'The fear of the Lord -- that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'"
Job 32:4
Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.
Job 32:7-10
I said to myself, 'Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.'
Psalm 111:10
To obey the Lord is the fundamental principle for wise living; all who carry out his precepts acquire good moral insight. He will receive praise forever.
Jeremiah 8:8-9
How can you say, "We are wise! We have the law of the Lord"? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.
Matthew 7:24
"Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.
James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.