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Selected Verse: Psalms 119:71 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 119:71 |
King James |
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| So also affliction of any kind acts as a wholesome discipline in leading the pious more highly to value the truth and promises of God. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
It is good for me that I have been afflicted - See the notes at Psa 119:67. Whatever may have been the form of the affliction, it was good for me. The design was benevolent; the result has been my own benefit. This will be the experience sooner or later resulting from all the afflictions of the righteous.
That I might learn thy statutes - That I might be brought more fully to understand what they require; and that I might be led to conform to them. It is implied here
(a) that this is the tendency of affliction; and
(b) that this is an advantage - a good.
Anything that will lead a man to obey God is a blessing and a favor. Whatever leads a sinner to secure the salvation of his soul is a gain to him. No matter what it may cost; no matter what he may be required to give up; no matter to what persecutions and troubles it may expose him; no matter what he may suffer, or how long he may suffer; no matter though poverty, contempt, toil - even the rack or the stake - may be the consequence of his religion - yet it is again to him; and he will be thankful for it in the end - for nothing that can be endured in this life can be compared with the sufferings of the world of despair; nothing on earth can be "compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us in heaven." See the notes at Rom 8:18. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| It is good for me that I have been afflicted - See on Psa 119:67 (note). |
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.