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I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept your precepts.
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Obedience Over Experience
Commentators unanimously agree that the psalmist's wisdom surpasses that of the aged not because of intellect or long life, but because of active obedience to God's commands. Scholars like Albert Barnes and Charles Spurgeon stress that keeping God's precepts is the direct path to a profound understanding that can exceed even the wisdom gained through years of human experience.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I understand more than the ancients — in Hebrew, "the old men." This does not refer, as the word “ancients” does in our common unde…
19th Century
Anglican
Ancients. — Or, more probably, as the Septuagint and Vulgate, and the old versions generally interpreted it, old men.
Baptist
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
First his enemies, then his teachers, and now his elders, the anc…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I understand more than the ancients Than those that had lived in ages before him; having clearer light given him, an…
What we love, we love to think of. All true wisdom is from God. A good man carries his Bible with him, if not in his hands, yet in his head and in …
