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Selected Verse: Psalms 119:72 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Ps 119:72	Strong Concordance	The law [08451] of thy mouth [06310] is better [02896] unto me than thousands [0505] of gold [02091] and silver [03701].
	King James	The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The law of thy mouth - The law which proceeds out of thy mouth, or which thou hast spoken. Is better unto me - The Hebrew is, "Good to me is the law of thy mouth above thousands of gold and silver." Than thousands of gold and silver - Than any amount of wealth. It is to me the most valuable possession; that which I prize above all other things. Compare the notes at Psa 19:10.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

The law of thy mouth - The law which proceeds out of thy mouth, or which thou hast spoken.

Is better unto me - The Hebrew is, "Good to me is the law of thy mouth above thousands of gold and silver."

Than thousands of gold and silver - Than any amount of wealth. It is to me the most valuable possession; that which I prize above all other things. Compare the notes at Psa 19:10.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
The law of thy mouth is better - Who can say this? Who prefers the law of his God, the Christ that bought him, and the heaven to which he hopes to go, when he can live no longer upon earth, to thousands of gold and silver? Yea, how many are there who, like Judas, sell their Savior even for thirty pieces of silver? Hear this, ye lovers of the world and of money! As the letter ט teth begins but few words, not forty, in the Hebrew language, there is less variety under this division than under any of the preceding.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

The law of thy mouth is better - Who can say this? Who prefers the law of his God, the Christ that bought him, and the heaven to which he hopes to go, when he can live no longer upon earth, to thousands of gold and silver? Yea, how many are there who, like Judas, sell their Savior even for thirty pieces of silver? Hear this, ye lovers of the world and of money!

As the letter ט teth begins but few words, not forty, in the Hebrew language, there is less variety under this division than under any of the preceding.

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