Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.
- BSB Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.
- NKJV You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; For they are ever with me.
- NASB Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are ever mine.
- NLT Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are my constant guide.
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Cross-references · 11
- Prov 2:6For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
- Ps 119:104–105Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUN
- Jas 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
- Deut 4:6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”
- Ps 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
- Ps 119:30I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.
- Deut 4:8What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you today?
- 1 Sam 18:30Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.
- 1 Sam 18:14David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.
- 1 Sam 18:5David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.
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