Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Your testimonies are my prayer.

New American Standard Bible

I have more insight than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my meditation.

King James Version

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

Holman Bible

I have more insight than all my teachers
because Your decrees are my meditation.

International Standard Version

I am more insightful than my teachers, because your decrees are my meditations.

A Conservative Version

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation.

American Standard Version

I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thy testimonies are my meditation.

Amplified


I have better understanding and deeper insight than all my teachers [because of Your word],
For Your testimonies are my meditation.

Bible in Basic English

I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.

Darby Translation

I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation.

Julia Smith Translation

Above all those teaching me I understood, for thy testimonies a meditation to me.

King James 2000

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for your testimonies are my meditation.

Lexham Expanded Bible

I have more insight than all my teachers, for your testimonies [are] my meditation.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my study.

NET Bible

I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.

New Heart English Bible

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

The Emphasized Bible

Beyond all my teachers, have I shown discretion, for, thy testimonies, are my meditation.

Webster

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

World English Bible

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

Youngs Literal Translation

Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation.

References

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Verse Info

Context Readings

Mem

98 Through Your Commandments You make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; for Your testimonies are my prayer. 100 I understand more than the old men, because I keep Your Commandments.


Cross References

Hebrews 5:12

For indeed because of the time, you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again what are the first principles of the oracles of God. And you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Matthew 23:24-36

Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

2 Timothy 3:15-17

and that from a babe you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Deuteronomy 4:6-8

And you shall keep and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

2 Samuel 15:24-26

And lo, Zadok came also, and all the Levites were with him, carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God. And Abiathar went up until all the people had finished passing out of the city.

1 Chronicles 15:11-13

And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab.

2 Chronicles 29:15-36

And they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the command of the king, by the words of Jehovah, to clean the house of Jehovah.

2 Chronicles 30:22

And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of Jehovah. And they ate the appointed things seven days, offering peace offerings and making confession to Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

Psalm 119:24

Your testimonies also are my delight and my advisers.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And they who handle the Law did not know Me; the shepherds also rebelled against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things not profitable.

Jeremiah 8:8-9

How do you say, We are wise, and the Law of Jehovah is with us? Lo, certainly the lying pen of the scribes has written falsely.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank You, O Father, Lord of Heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the sophisticated and cunning, and revealed them to babes.

Matthew 13:11

He answered and said to them, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Matthew 15:6-9

and in no way he honors his father or his mother. And you voided the commandment of God by your tradition.

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