Księga Psalmów 18:23

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(18:24) Byłem wobec Niego nienaganny, Dbałem, by nie popełnić przewinienia,

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Gdyżem zawżdy przed sobą miał wszytki sądy jego, a ustaw jego nie odmiatowałem od siebie.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Bom miał wszystkie sądy jego przed oczyma memi, a ustaw jego nie odrzucałem od siebie.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Wszystkie Jego ustawy są przede mną oraz nie odstępuję od Jego praw.

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Bom miał wszystkie sądy jego przed oczyma memi, a ustaw jego nie odrzucałem od siebie.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Byłem wobec niego nienaganny i wystrzegałem się swojej nieprawości.

Biblia Warszawska
Bo mam przed sobą wszystkie prawa jego, A przykazań jego nie odrzucam od siebie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

upright: Psalms 7:1 - Psalms 8:9, Psalms 11:7, Psalms 17:3, Psalms 37:27, 1 Samuel 26:23, 1 Chronicles 29:17

before: Heb. with

I kept: Matthew 5:29, Matthew 5:30, Matthew 18:8, Matthew 18:9

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 5:19 - according to Job 1:8 - a perfect Psalms 19:13 - I shall Psalms 119:101 - refrained Isaiah 3:10 - they shall eat Isaiah 26:7 - way Isaiah 26:8 - in Luke 3:13 - Exact Hebrews 12:1 - and the sin 1 John 5:18 - keepeth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I was also upright before him,.... In heart and conversation, being sincere and faithful; so David was in the sight of God; but this is much more true of Christ, in whom there was no unrighteousness nor guile, neither in his heart, nor in his lips; he was of perfect integrity, and faithful in all things to him that appointed him;

and I kept myself from mine iniquity; which some interpret of original sin, in which David was born, which dwelt in him, and prompted him to sin; but rather it refers to the taking away of Saul's life, which he might be tempted to do, as being his enemy that sought his life; and which he was put upon and urged to by some about him, and yet did it not. But it is best here also to apply these words to Christ; for though he had no iniquity of his own, yet he had the iniquities of his people on him, as their surety, and which he calls "mine", Psalms 40:12. But though he bore them, he did not commit any of them; though he was made sin, he knew none; and though he was tempted by Satan to the most enormous iniquities, as destroying himself and worshipping the devil, he kept himself from the evil one, that he could not touch him: the sense is, that he kept himself from committing any sin, which cannot be said of any mere man; and so far as good men are kept from sin, they are kept by the power of God, and not by themselves. All these things show, that the righteousness of Christ was a perfect, sinless one, entirely agreeable to the laws, statutes, and judgments of God; was pure in the sight of God, and rewardable in strict justice. Hence it is repeated as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I was also upright before him - Margin, with. The meaning is that he was upright in his sight. The word rendered upright is the same which in Job 1:1 is rendered perfect. See the note at that passage.

And I kept myself from mine iniquity - From the iniquity to which I was prone or inclined. This is an acknowledgment that he was prone to sin, or that if he had acted out his natural character he would have indulged in sin - perhaps such sins as had been charged upon him. But he here says that, with this natural proneness to sin, he had restrained himself, and had not been deserving of the treatment which he had received. This is one of those incidental remarks which often occur in the Scriptures which recognize the doctrine of depravity, or the fact that the heart, even when most restrained, is by nature inclined to sin. If this psalm was composed in the latter part of the life of David (see the introduction), then this must mean either

(a) that in the review of his life he felt it had been his general and habitual aim to check his natural inclination to sin; or

(b) that at the particular periods referred to in the psalm, when God had so wonderfully interposed in his behalf, he felt that this had been his aim, and that he might now regard that as a reason why God had interposed in his behalf.

It is, however, painfully certain that at some periods of his life - as in the matter of Uriah - he did give indulgence to some of the most corrupt inclinations of the human heart, and that, in acting out these corrupt propensities, he was guilty of crimes which have forever dimmed the luster of his name and stained his memory. These painful facts, however, are not inconsistent with the statement that in his general character he did restrain these corrupt propensities, and did “keep himself from his iniquity” So, in the review of our own lives, if we are truly the friends of God, while we may be painfully conscious that we have often given indulgence to the corrupt propensities of our natures - over which, if we are truly the children of God, we shall have repented - we may still find evidence that, as the great and habitual rule of life, we have restrained those passions, and have “kept ourselves” from the particular forms of sin to which our hearts were prone.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:23. I was also upright — The times in which David was most afflicted were the times of his greatest uprightness. Adversity was always to him a time of spiritual prosperity.

Mine iniquity. — Probably meaning what is generally termed the easily-besetting sin; the sin of his constitution, or that to which the temperament of his body most powerfully disposed him. What this was, is a subject of useless conjecture.