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مزامير 139:4
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
there is not: Psalms 19:14, Job 8:2, Job 38:2, Job 42:3, Job 42:6-8, Zephaniah 1:12, Malachi 3:13-16, Matthew 12:35-37, James 1:26, James 3:2-10
thou knowest: Psalms 50:19-21, Jeremiah 29:23, Hebrews 4:12, Hebrews 4:13
Reciprocal: Exodus 14:3 - Pharaoh Job 37:20 - Shall it Jeremiah 23:25 - heard Malachi 3:16 - and the Acts 5:4 - thou hast
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For [there is] not a word in my tongue,.... Expressed by it or upon it, just ready to be spoken; or, as the Targum,
"when there is no word in my tongue:''
so Aben Ezra,
"before it was perfect in my tongue:''
before it is formed there; while it is in the mind, and not expressed, and even before that;
[but], lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether; the whole of it, from whence it springs; the reason of it, what is designed, or the ends to be answered by it. The Lord knows the good words of his people, which they speak to him in prayer, even before and while they are speaking them; and what they say to one another in private conversation,
Isaiah 65:24. See an instance of words known by Christ before spoken, in Luke 19:31.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For there is not a word in my tongue - All that I say; all that I have power to say; all that I am disposed at any time to say.
But lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether - All that pertains to it. What is “said,” and what is “meant.” Merely to “hear” what is spoken does not imply necessarily a full knowledge of what is said - for it may be false, insincere, hypocritical. God knows exactly what is said and what is “meant.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 139:4. There is not a word in my tongue — Although (כי ki) there be not a word in my tongue, behold O Jehovah, thou knowest the whole of it, that is, thou knowest all my words before they are uttered, as thou knowest all my thoughts while as yet they are unformed.