Psaumes 18:21

Louis Segond

Car j'ai observé les voies de l'Eternel, Et je n'ai point été coupable envers mon Dieu.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
L'�ternel m'a trait� selon ma justice; il m'a rendu selon la puret� de mes mains.

Darby's French Translation
Car j'ai gard� les voies de l'�ternel, et je ne me suis point m�chamment d�tourn� de mon Dieu.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Parce que j'ai tenu le chemin de l'Eternel, et que je ne me suis point d�tourn� de mon Dieu.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For I: Psalms 17:4, Psalms 26:1, Psalms 119:10, Psalms 119:11, Acts 24:16, 1 Thessalonians 2:10

have not: Psalms 119:102, 1 Samuel 15:11, 1 John 2:19

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 26:13 - I have not 1 Kings 18:13 - what I did 2 Chronicles 17:6 - in the ways 2 Chronicles 20:32 - departed not Isaiah 59:13 - departing Jeremiah 17:5 - whose Daniel 9:5 - departing Malachi 2:8 - ye are Hebrews 3:12 - in 2 Peter 2:2 - ways

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For I have kept the ways of the Lord,.... Not those which the Lord himself walks in, his ways of providence, or of grace; though these are and should be taken notice of and observed by good men, as the word y used will bear to be rendered; but the ways which he has prescribed and directed men to walk in, the ways of his commandments, in which they should go; these were, in some measure, kept by David, who often, in the hundred nineteenth psalm speaks of his keeping the testimonies and statutes, and commandments of the Lord; as they are by good men, with some degree of pleasure, they take delight to walk in them; and with some degree of constancy, they keep walking in them, without turning to the right hand or the left, though solicited to it; but yet not perfectly, for they have many a slip and fall in them; wherefore this cannot be a reason of their being rewarded according to their righteousness: in strict justice, the words better agree with Christ, who kept the law of God perfectly, did his will completely; he came from heaven to do it; it was his meat and drink to accomplish it; and he always did the things which pleased his father, wherefore he rewarded him;

and have not wickedly departed from my God; which was, in some sense, true of David; not as by disbelieving the power and providence, the promises, truth, and faithfulness of God, and his covenant interest in him; which to do would have been a wicked departure from God; see Hebrews 3:12; nor by forsaking the house and worship of God; though he was driven from thence by wicked men, yet sore against his will, and which during his exile he frequently laments and complains of; nor by sinning wilfully and presumptuously, only through error, inadvertency, infirmity, and temptation: but when it is observed, how much unbelief, which is a partial departing from the living God, and how many there are that neglect private and public worship, and what a proneness there is to sin and wickedness, and how much there is of the will in sinful actions, in the best of men; it is right and best to understand this of Christ, who never was guilty of sin, nor committed any wickedness in departing from God in the least: as man, God was his God, and he always believed his interest in him, and claimed it even when he forsook him on the cross; nor did he quit his service, desert his cause, nor depart from the work and business he enjoined him, till it was finished.

y שמרתי "observaveram", Tigurine version, Vatablus; "observo", Junius Tremellius "observavi", Gejerus, Michaelis; so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For I have kept the ways of the Lord - I have obeyed his laws. I have not so violated the laws which God has given to regulate my conduct with my fellow-men as to deserve to be treated by them as a guilty man.

And have not wickedly departed from my God - “I have not been a sinner from my God;” an apostate; an open violator of his law. The treatment which I have received, though it would be justly rendered to an open violator of law, is not that which I have merited from the hand of man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:21. I have kept the ways of the Lord — I was neither an infidel nor a profligate; I trusted in God, and carefully observed all the ordinances of his religion.