Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

I have seen a limit to every perfection; your command [is] very broad.

New American Standard Bible

I have seen a limit to all perfection;
Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

King James Version

I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Holman Bible

I have seen a limit to all perfection,
but Your command is without limit.

International Standard Version

I have observed that all things have their limit, but your commandment is very broad. Mem

A Conservative Version

I have seen an end of all perfection. Thy commandment is exceedingly broad.

American Standard Version

MEM. I have seen an end of all perfection; But thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Amplified


I have seen that all [human] perfection has its limits [no matter how grand and perfect and noble];
Your commandment is exceedingly broad and extends without limits [into eternity].

Bible in Basic English

I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide.

Darby Translation

I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.

Julia Smith Translation

I saw the end to all perfection: thy command is exceeding broad.

King James 2000

I have seen a limit to all perfection: but your commandment is exceedingly broad.

Modern King James verseion

I have seen an end to all perfection; Your Commandment is exceedingly broad.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I see that all things come to an end, but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

NET Bible

I realize that everything has its limits, but your commands are beyond full comprehension.

New Heart English Bible

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless.

The Emphasized Bible

To all perfection, have I seen an end, Broad is thy commandment, exceedingly.

Webster

I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

World English Bible

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM

Youngs Literal Translation

Of all perfection I have seen an end, Broad is Thy command -- exceedingly!

References

Easton

Law

Hastings

Context Readings

Lamed

95 For me [the] wicked [lie in] wait to destroy me. I give attention to your testimonies. 96 I have seen a limit to every perfection; your command [is] very broad. 97 How I love your law! The whole day it [is] my meditation.


Cross References

1 Samuel 9:2

He had a son whose name was Saul, a young and handsome man. There was not a man from the {Israelites} more handsome than he [was]; from his shoulders up, he was taller than all the people.

1 Samuel 17:8

He stood and called to the battle lines of Israel and said to them, "Why have you come out to form ranks [for] battle? [Am] I not the Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Commission for yourselves a man and let him come down to me.

1 Samuel 17:49-51

Then David put his hand into the bag and took a stone from it and slung [it]. He struck the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

1 Samuel 31:4-5

Then Saul said to {his armor bearer}, "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised do not come and thrust me through and make a fool of me!" But {his armor bearer} [was] not willing [to do so] because he [was] very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

2 Samuel 14:25

As far as Absalom, there was not a more handsome man in all of Israel to admire so much; from the sole of his foot up to his crown, there was no physical defect on him.

2 Samuel 16:23

The counsel that Ahithophel gave in those days [was] regarded as when a man inquired of the word of God, so all the counsel of Ahithophel [was esteemed] both by David and by Absalom.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his advice [was] not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. {After he set his house in order}, he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors.

2 Samuel 18:14

Joab said, "No longer will I wait in your presence." Then he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he [was] still alive in the oak tree.

2 Samuel 18:17

They took Absalom and they threw him into the large pit in the forest and raised a very great heap of stones over him. Then all of Israel fled, each to his tent.

Psalm 19:7-8

The law of Yahweh [is] perfect, reviving life. The testimony of Yahweh [is] firm, making wise [the] simple.

Psalm 39:5-6

Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah

Ecclesiastes 1:2-3

"Vanity of vanities!" says the Teacher, "Vanity of vanities! All [is] vanity!"

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!"

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who [continually] does good and never sins.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

"Vanity of vanity!" says the Teacher. "Everything [is] vanity!"

Matthew 5:18

For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one tiny letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all takes place.

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 22:37-40

And he said to him, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

Mark 12:29-34

Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Romans 7:7-12

What then shall we say? [Is] the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

Romans 7:14

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, {sold into slavery to sin}.

Hebrews 4:12-13

For the word of God [is] living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, both joints and marrow, and able to judge the reflections and thoughts of the heart.

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