119:6 Then I would not be ashamed,
if 1 I were focused on 2 all your commands.
119:86 All your commands are reliable.
I am pursued without reason. 3 Help me!
119:128 For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. 4
I hate all deceitful actions. 5
1 tn Or “when.”
2 tn Heb “I gaze at.”
3 sn God’s commands are a reliable guide to right and wrong. By keeping them the psalmist is doing what is right, yet he is still persecuted.
4 tn Heb “for this reason all the precepts of everything I regard as right.” The phrase “precepts of everything” is odd. It is preferable to take the kaf (כ) on כֹּל (kol, “everything) with the preceding form as a pronominal suffix, “your precepts,” and the lamed (ל) with the following verb as an emphatic particle. See L. C. Allen, Psalms 101-150 (WBC), 138.
5 tn Heb “every false path.”