Psalms 119:67 · American Standard Version
Psalms 119:67 in the Original Hebrew
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Psalms 119:67 in Other Translations
| KJV | Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. |
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| WEB | Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word. |
| ASV | Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word. |
| YLT | Before I am afflicted, I—I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept. |
| WBT | Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. |
| DBY | Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep thy *word. |
Commentary on Psalms 119:67
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John Gill · Psalms 119:67
Their heart is as fat as grease,.... Or tallow, a lump of it, fat or grease congealed. That is, the heart of the above proud persons, who abounded in riches, were glutted with the things of this world; had more than heart could wish, and so became proud and haughty: or their hearts were gross, sottish, senseless, and stupid, as persons fat at heart are; or as creatures over fat, which have little or no feeling: so these had no knowledge of the law of God, no sense of their duty, no remorse of conscience for sin; their hearts were hardened, and they past feeling, and given up to a reprobate mind; see Isa 6:9; The Targum is,
"the imagination of their heart is become gross as fat:''
the Septuagint is, "curdled like milk"; that is, hardened, as Suidas (s) interprets it;
but I delight in thy law; after the inward man; as the apostle did, Rom 7:22; as fulfilled in Christ; as in his hands, as King and Lawgiver; as written upon his own heart; and so yielding a ready and cheerful obedience to it; he delighted in reading the law, in meditating on it, and in observing it.
(s) In voce
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Questions about Psalms 119:67
What does Psalms 119:67 say?
Psalms 119:67 in the American Standard Version reads: “Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe thy word.” Read it in the full context of Psalms 119, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Psalms 119:67 found in the Bible?
Psalms 119:67 is in the book of Psalms, chapter 119, verse 67, in the Old Testament.
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David here tells us what he had experienced, 1. Of the temptations of a prosperous condition: "Before I was afflicted, while I lived in peace and plenty, and knew no sorrow, I went astray from God and my duty." Sin is going astray; and we are most apt to wander from God when we are easy and think ourselves at home in the world. Prosperity is the unhappy occasion of much iniquity; it makes people conceited of themselves, indulgent of the flesh, forgetful of God, in love with the world, and deaf to the reproofs of the word. See Psa 30:6. It is good for us, when we are afflicted, to remember how and wherein we went astray before we were afflicted, that we may answer the end of the affliction. 2. Of the benefit of an afflicted state: "Now have I kept thy word, and so have been recovered from my wanderings." God often makes use of afflictions as a means to reduce those to himself who have wandered from him. Sanctified afflictions humble us for sin and show us the vanity of the world; they soften the heart, and open the ear to discipline. The prodigal's distress brought him to himself first and then to his father.