Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

I have more insight than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my meditation.

King James Version

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

Holman Bible

I have more insight than all my teachers
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.

Amplified


I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word],
For Your 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.

References

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Mem

98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
For they are ever mine.
99 I have more insight than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the aged,
Because I have observed Your precepts.


Cross References

Hebrews 5:12

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 23:24-36

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

2 Timothy 3:15-17

and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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 behold, 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 came up 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, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab,

2 Chronicles 29:15-36

They assembled their brothers, consecrated themselves, and went in to cleanse the house of the Lord, according to the commandment of the king by the words of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 30:22

Then Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good insight in the things of the Lord. So they ate for the appointed seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord God of their fathers.

Psalm 119:24

Your testimonies also are my delight;
They are my counselors.

Jeremiah 2:8

“The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
And those who handle the law did not know Me;
The rulers also transgressed against Me,
And the prophets prophesied by Baal
And walked after things that did not profit.

Jeremiah 8:8-9

How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to infants.

Matthew 13:11

Jesus answered them, To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.

Matthew 15:6-9

he is not to honor his father or his mother.’ And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

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