119:130 Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. 1
They give 2 insight to the untrained. 3
119:131 I open my mouth and pant,
because I long 4 for your commands.
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.
4 tn The verb occurs only here in the OT.