Psalms 119:96
94 I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts.
95 The wicked wait to destroy me, but I will ponder Your testimonies.
I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.
97 Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.
- KJV
- I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
- WEB
- I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.
- ASV
- I have seen an end of all perfection; [But] thy commandment is exceeding broad.
- DARBY
- I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.
- BLB
- To all perfection I have seen an end; broad [is] Your commandment exceedingly.
- ÅB
- På all fullkommenhet har jeg sett en ende, men ditt bud strekker seg såre vidt.
- OTB
- Jeg har sett en grense for all fullkommenhet;
Ditt bud er overmåte bredt. - B1930
- På all fullkommenhet har jeg sett en ende, men ditt bud strekker sig såre vidt.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 2:11
Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Read in contextMatthew 5:18
For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
Read in contextPsalms 39:5–6
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Read in contextMatthew 22:37–40
Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
Read in contextEcclesiastes 1:2–3
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
Read in contextRomans 7:14
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.
Read in context1 Samuel 17:8
And Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and array yourselves for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose one of your men and have him come down against me.
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