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Psalms 119:99
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I have more insight than all my teachersbecause your decrees are my meditation.
I have more understanding than all my teachers, For your testimonies are my meditation.
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
I am wiser than all my teachers, because I think about your rules.
I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.
I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word], For Your testimonies are my meditation.
I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.
I have more understanding than all my teachers, For your testimonies are my meditation.
I haue had more vnderstading then all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
I have more insight than all my teachers,For Your testimonies are my meditation.
I have more insight than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.
I have more understanding than all my teachers, because I meditate on your instruction.
I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation.
I am wiser than all my teachers, because I study your rules.
Give me more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation.
I understand more than all my teachers, because I meditate on your instructions.
I have more insight than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Your Testimonies are a meditation to me.
I haue more vnderstondinge then all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my studye.
I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thy testimonies are my meditation.
I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.
I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Thy testimonies are my meditation.
I haue more vnderstanding then all my teachers: for thy Testimonies are my meditation.
I am able to geue better instruction then all they that were my teachers: for thy testimonies are my study.
I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my medication.
I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation.
I vndurstood aboue alle men techinge me; for thi witnessingis is my thenking.
I have more understanding than all my teachers; For your testimonies are my meditation.
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies [are] my meditation.
I have more understanding than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.
Yes, I have more insight than my teachers, for I am always thinking of your laws.
I have better understanding than all my teachers because I think about Your Law.
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your decrees are my meditation.
Beyond all my teachers, have I shown discretion, for, thy testimonies, are my meditation.
(118-99) I have understood more than all my teachers: because thy testimonies are my meditation.
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation.
Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies [are] my meditation.
I have more insight than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
than all: Deuteronomy 4:6-8, 2 Samuel 15:24-26, 1 Chronicles 15:11-13, 2 Chronicles 29:15-36, 2 Chronicles 30:22, Jeremiah 2:8, Jeremiah 8:8, Jeremiah 8:9, Matthew 11:25, Matthew 13:11, Matthew 15:6-9, Matthew 15:14, Matthew 23:24-36, Hebrews 5:12
for thy: Psalms 119:24, 2 Timothy 3:15-17
Reciprocal: Joshua 1:8 - thou shalt 1 Samuel 18:30 - behaved himself Proverbs 2:9 - General Daniel 1:20 - in all Daniel 9:2 - understood Micah 2:7 - do not Matthew 7:24 - a wise Luke 2:47 - General Acts 8:28 - and sitting 1 Corinthians 14:20 - not Colossians 1:9 - wisdom 1 Timothy 4:15 - Meditate
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I have more understanding than all my teachers,.... Such as had been or would have been his teachers, who were bad ones in religious matters; especially such might be the religious teachers in Saul's time, when David was a young man: as the priests, whose lips should keep knowledge, and deliver it to the people, were in the times of Malachi; and as the Scribes and Pharisees, who, sat in Moses's chair, were in Christ's time; and as those legal teachers were in the apostles' times, who would be teachers of the law, not knowing what they said, nor whereof they affirmed; such as these David exceeded in spiritual understanding. Or his good teachers are meant; and though in common it is true that "a disciple is not above his master", Matthew 10:24; yet there are sometimes instances in which scholars exceed their teachers in knowledge and learning; and this is no reproach to a master to have such scholars: no doubt Apollos so improved in knowledge as to excel Aquila and Priscilla, of whom he learned much; as the Apostle Paul excelled Ananias; and so David excelled his teachers: and which is said by him, not in an ostentatious way of himself, nor in contempt of his teachers; but to commend the word of God, the source of his knowledge; and to magnify the grace of God, to whom he attributes all his wisdom, as in Psalms 119:98. Kimchi interprets it,
"of them all I have learned and received instruction; and from them I have understood the good way, and they have taught me;''
for thy testimonies [are] my meditation; what he learned of his teachers he compared with the word, the Scriptures, which testify of the mind and will of God; he searched into them, he meditated upon them, and considered whether what his instructors taught him were agreeable to them or and by this means he got more understanding than they had.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I have more understanding than all my teachers - Referring perhaps to those who had given him instruction in early life. By constant meditation on the law of God, he had, in the progress of years, advanced to a point beyond that to which they had arrived. He had improved upon their suggestions and instructions, until he had surpassed them in knowledge. His “design” in saying this was to set forth the excellency and the fullness of the law of God, and to show how the study of it was suited to enlarge the understanding. In early life the wisdom of teachers seems to be far beyond anything that we can hope to reach; yet a few years of study and meditation may place us far beyond them. What those teachers seemed to be to us, however, when we were young, may serve ever onward as a means of comparison when we wish to speak of the greatness of human attainments. So the psalmist says that he had now reached a point which seemed to him in early life to be wonderful, and to be beyond what he had then hoped ever to attain. He had now reached that point; he had gone beyond it.
For thy testimonies are my meditation - Compare Psa 1:2; 2 Timothy 3:15. All this knowledge he had obtained by meditation on the law of God; by the study of divine truth. The effect of that constant study was seen in the knowledge which he now possessed, and which seemed to surprise even himself as compared with the brightest anticipations of his early years.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 119:99. I have more understanding than all my teachers — As he had entered into the spiritual nature of the law of God, and saw into the exceeding breadth of the commandment, he soon became wiser than any of the priests or even prophets who instructed him.
