Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it is before me to the age.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Your commands make me wiser than my enemies,
for they are always with me.

International Standard Version

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

A Conservative Version

Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Above mine enemies thou wilt make me wise from thy commands, for It is forever to me.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, because they [are] ever with me.

Modern King James verseion

Through Your Commandments You make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Beyond mine enemies, will thy commandment make me wise, for, age-abidingly, shall it be mine.

Webster

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.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Mem

97 Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation. 98 Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it is before me to the age. 99 Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:6

and ye have kept and done them (for it is your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding is this great nation.

Deuteronomy 4:8

and which is the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

1 Samuel 18:5

And David goeth out whithersoever Saul doth send him; he acted wisely, and Saul setteth him over the men of war, and it is good in the eyes of all the people, and also in the eyes of the servants of Saul.

1 Samuel 18:14

And David is in all his ways acting wisely, and Jehovah is with him,

1 Samuel 18:30

And the princes of the Philistines come out, and it cometh to pass from the time of their coming out, David hath acted more wisely than any of the servants of Saul, and his name is very precious.

Psalm 119:11

In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

Psalm 119:30

The way of faithfulness I have chosen, Thy judgments I have compared,

Psalm 119:104-105

From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!

Proverbs 2:6

For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.

Colossians 3:16

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

James 1:25

and he who did look into the perfect law -- that of liberty, and did continue there, this one -- not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work -- this one shall be happy in his doing.

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