Parallel Verses

Amplified


Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
For Your words are always with me.

New American Standard Bible

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
For they are ever mine.

King James Version

Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.

Holman Bible

Your commands make me wiser than my enemies,
for they are always with me.

International Standard Version

Your commands make me wiser than my adversaries, since they are always with me.

A Conservative Version

Thy commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.

American Standard Version

Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; For they are ever with me.

Bible in Basic English

Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

Darby Translation

Thy commandments make me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.

Julia Smith Translation

Above mine enemies thou wilt make me wise from thy commands, for It is forever to me.

King James 2000

You through your commandments have made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, because they [are] ever with me.

Modern King James verseion

Through Your Commandments You make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.

NET Bible

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for I am always aware of them.

New Heart English Bible

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

The Emphasized Bible

Beyond mine enemies, will thy commandment make me wise, for, age-abidingly, shall it be mine.

Webster

Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than my enemies: for they are ever with me.

World English Bible

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

Youngs Literal Translation

Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it is before me to the age.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Mem

97 Mem.
Oh, how I love Your law!
It is my meditation all the day.
98 
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
For Your words are always with me.
99
I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word],
For Your testimonies are my meditation.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:6

So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

Deuteronomy 4:8

Or what great nation has statutes and judgments so righteous (upright, just) as this whole law which I am placing before you today?

1 Samuel 18:5

So David went out wherever Saul sent him, and he acted wisely and prospered; and Saul appointed him over the men of war. And it pleased all the people and also Saul’s servants.

1 Samuel 18:14

David acted wisely and prospered in all his ways, and the Lord was with him.

1 Samuel 18:30

Then the Philistine commanders (princes) came out to battle, and it happened as often as they did, that David acted more wisely and had more success than all Saul’s servants. So his name was highly esteemed.

Psalm 119:11


Your word I have treasured and stored in my heart,
That I may not sin against You.

Psalm 119:30


I have chosen the faithful way;
I have placed Your ordinances before me.

Psalm 119:104-105


From Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.

Proverbs 2:6


For the Lord gives [skillful and godly] wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Colossians 3:16

Let the [spoken] word of Christ have its home within you [dwelling in your heart and mind—permeating every aspect of your being] as you teach [spiritual things] and admonish and train one another with all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

James 1:25

But he who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having become a [careless] listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he will be blessed and favored by God in what he does [in his life of obedience].

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