Text -- Psalms 119:130 (NET)

119:130 Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. They give insight to the untrained.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 119:130

¹ tn Heb “the doorway of your words gives light.” God’s “words” refer here to the instructions in his law (see vv. 9, 57).

² tn Heb “it [i.e., the doorway] gives.”

³ tn Or “the [morally] naive,” that is, the one who is young and still in the process of learning right from wrong and distinguishing wisdom from folly. See Pss 19:7; 116:6.