Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation.

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.

References

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Mem

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. 100 Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.


Cross References

Hebrews 5:12

for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,

Matthew 15:14

let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

Matthew 23:24-36

'Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.

2 Timothy 3:15-17

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise -- to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus;

Deuteronomy 4:6-8

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.

2 Samuel 15:24-26

and lo, also Zadok, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God, and they make the ark of God firm, and Abiathar goeth up, till the completion of all the people to pass over out of the city.

1 Chronicles 15:11-13

And David calleth to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, and to the Levites, to Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

2 Chronicles 29:15-36

and they gather their brethren, and sanctify themselves, and come in, according to the command of the king in the matters of Jehovah, to cleanse the house of Jehovah,

2 Chronicles 30:22

And Hezekiah speaketh unto the heart of all the Levites, those giving good understanding concerning Jehovah, and they eat the appointed thing seven days; sacrificing sacrifices of peace-offerings, and making confession to Jehovah, God of their fathers.

Psalm 119:24

Thy testimonies also are my delight, The men of my counsel!

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests have not said, 'Where is Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.

Jeremiah 8:8-9

How do ye say, We are wise, And the law of Jehovah is with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus answering said, 'I do confess to Thee, Father, Lord of the heavens and of the earth, that thou didst hide these things from wise and understanding ones, and didst reveal them to babes.

Matthew 13:11

And he answering said to them that -- 'To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given,

Matthew 15:6-9

and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.

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