ט (Tet)
119:65 You are good 1 to your servant,
O Lord, just as you promised. 2
119:66 Teach me proper discernment 3 and understanding!
For I consider your commands to be reliable. 4
119:67 Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, 5
but now I keep your instructions. 6
119:68 You are good and you do good.
Teach me your statutes!
119:69 Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, 7
but I observe your precepts with all my heart.
119:70 Their hearts are calloused, 8
but I find delight in your law.
119:71 It was good for me to suffer,
so that I might learn your statutes.
119:72 The law you have revealed is more important to me
than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. 9
1 tn Heb “do good.”
2 tn Heb “according to your word.”
3 tn Heb “goodness of taste.” Here “taste” refers to moral and ethical discernment.
4 tn Heb “for I believe in your commands.”
5 tn Heb “before I suffered, I was straying off.”
6 tn Heb “your word.”
7 tn Heb “smear over me a lie.”
9 tn Heb “their heart is insensitive like fat.”
11 tn Heb “better to me [is] the law of your mouth than thousands of gold and silver.”