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Psalm 119:98

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

96I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM
97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
99I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
100I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
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The repeated words “your commandments” put the source of wisdom in view, even in a sentence that compares the psalmist with his enemies.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Proverbs 2:6For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.Both passages trace wisdom to God and the words that come from him.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in …God's commandments remaining with the psalmist and Christ's word dwelling within believers both connect wisdom with words kept close.
James 1:25But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.Both passages describe sustained attention to God's instruction, with wisdom named in the psalm and blessing named in James.
Psalm 119:104–105Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. NUNBoth verses name God's instruction as the source of understanding, whether facing enemies or rejecting false ways.
Psalm 37:31The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.Both passages connect keeping God's law close with its effect on a person's life: wisdom here and firm steps there.
Psalm 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.Both verses describe God's word kept close, connecting that nearness with wisdom here and resistance to sin there.
Deuteronomy 4:6Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who shall hear all these statutes and say, “Surely this …Both passages connect God's commands with wisdom that distinguishes his people from those around them.
Deuteronomy 6:6These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;Commands remaining with the psalmist echo Deuteronomy's instruction that God's words shall be on the heart.
Deuteronomy 4:8What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?Both passages set God's law within a comparison, highlighting the wisdom it gives or the righteousness of its statutes.
1 Samuel 18:30Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name …Both describe wisdom surpassing that of others, though Samuel does not name God's commandments as the source of David's conduct.
1 Samuel 18:5David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely; and Saul set him over the men of war. It was good in the sight of all the people, and also …Both speak of wisdom amid conflict, though Samuel describes David's conduct without linking it to commandments kept close.
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The psalmist still has enemies. His confidence rests in God's commandments: their enduring presence gives him wisdom while opposition remains.

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