Psalms 119:11

119:11 In my heart I store up ¹  your words, ² 

so I might not sin against you.

Psalms 119:83

119:83 For ³  I am like a wineskin ⁴  dried up in smoke. ⁵ 

I do not forget your statutes.

Psalms 119:93

119:93 I will never forget your precepts,

for by them you have revived me.

Psalms 119:109

119:109 My life is in continual danger, ⁶ 

but I do not forget your law.

Psalms 119:141

119:141 I am insignificant and despised,

yet I do not forget your precepts.

Psalms 119:176

119:176 I have wandered off like a lost sheep. ⁷ 

Come looking for your servant,

for I do not forget your commands.

Proverbs 3:1

Exhortations to Seek Wisdom and Walk with the Lord ⁸ 

3:1 My child, ⁹  do not forget my teaching,

but let your heart keep ¹⁰  my commandments,

James 1:23-24

1:23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone ¹¹  who gazes at his own face ¹²  in a mirror. 1:24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets ¹³  what sort of person he was.

[119:11]  ¹ tn Or “hide.”

[119:11]  ² tn Heb “your word.” Some medieval Hebrew mss as well as the LXX read the plural, “your words.”

[119:83]  ³ tn Or “even though.”

[119:83]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew word נֹאד (no’d, “leather container”) refers to a container made from animal skin which is used to hold wine or milk (see Josh 9:4, 13; Judg 4:19; 1 Sam 16:20).

[119:83]  ⁵ tn Heb “in the smoke.”

[119:109]  ⁶ tn Heb “my life [is] in my hands continually.”

[119:176]  ⁷ tn Heb “I stray like a lost sheep.” It is possible that the point of the metaphor is vulnerability: The psalmist, who is threatened by his enemies, feels as vulnerable as a straying, lost sheep. This would not suggest, however, that he has wandered from God’s path (see the second half of the verse, as well as v. 110).

[3:1]  ⁸ sn The chapter begins with an introductory exhortation (1-4), followed by an admonition to be faithful to the Lord (5-12). Wisdom is commended as the most valuable possession (13-18), essential to creation (19-20), and the way to a long and safe life (21-26). There then follows a warning to avoid unneighborliness (27-30) and emulating the wicked (31-35).

[3:1]  ⁹ tn Heb “my son” (likewise in vv. 11, 21).

[3:1]  ¹⁰ tn The verb יִצֹּר (yitsor) is a Qal jussive and the noun לִבֶּךָ (libbekha, “your heart”) functions as the subject: “let your heart keep my commandments.”

[1:23]  ¹¹ tn The word for “man” or “individual” is ἀνήρ (anhr), which often means “male” or “man (as opposed to woman).” However, as BDAG 79 s.v. 2 says, here it is “equivalent to τὶς someone, a person.”

[1:23]  ¹² tn Grk “the face of his beginning [or origin].”

[1:24]  ¹³ tn Grk “and he has gone out and immediately has forgotten.”