I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
Parallel translations
- KJV I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
- BSB I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.
- NKJV I understand more than the ancients, Because I keep Your precepts.
- NASB I understand more than those who are old, Because I have complied with Your precepts.
- NLT I am even wiser than my elders, for I have kept your commandments.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Jas 3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
- Ps 111:10The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
- Jer 8:8–9“‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely.
- Job 12:12With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
- Job 15:9–10What do you know, that we don’t know? What do you understand, which is not in us?
- Job 28:28To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”
- Matt 7:24“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
- Job 32:4Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
- 1 Kgs 12:6–15King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”
- Job 32:7–10I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’
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