Psalms 119:72
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
American King James Version (AKJV)
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
American Standard Version (ASV)
The law of thy mouth is better unto me Than thousands of gold and silver.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
Webster's Revision
The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
World English Bible
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. YUD
English Revised Version (ERV)
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Clarke's Psalms 119:72 Bible Commentary
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.
Barnes's Psalms 119:72 Bible Commentary
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 Psalm 19:10.
