Psalms 119:100

In 11 translations

BSB

I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.

KJV

I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

WEB

I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

ASV

I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept thy precepts.

LSV

Above elderly—I understand more, || For I have kept Your precepts.

YLT

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

DBY

I understand more than the aged, because I have observed thy precepts.

DRC118:100

I have had understanding above ancients: because I have sought thy commandments.

GNV

I vnderstoode more then the ancient, because I kept thy precepts.

JPS

I understand more than mine elders, because I have keep Thy precepts.

LXXE118:100

I understand more than the aged; because I have sought out thy commandments.

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Original-language editions

WLC

מִזְּקֵנִ֥ים אֶתְבּוֹנָ֑ן כִּ֖י פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי׃

LXX-Br118:100

Ὑπὲρ πρεσβυτέρους συνῆκα, ὅτι τὰς ἐντολάς σου ἐξεζήτησα.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 111:10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow His precepts gain rich understanding. His praise endures forever!
• James 3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
• Jeremiah 8:8–9How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception? The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have…
• Job 28:28And He said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
• Job 12:12Wisdom is found with the elderly, and understanding comes with long life.
• Job 15:9–10What do you know that we do not? What do you understand that is not clear to us? Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.
• 1 Kings 12:6–15Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked. They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people…
• Matthew 7:24Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
• Job 32:4Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.
• Job 32:7–10I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding. It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who…

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