Discovery BoxPsalms 119:16 
Context119:16 I find delight 1 in your statutes;
I do not forget your instructions. 2
Psalms 119:83
Context119:83 For 3 I am like a wineskin 4 dried up in smoke. 5
I do not forget your statutes.
Psalms 119:109
Context119:109 My life is in continual danger, 6
but I do not forget your law.
1 tn The imperfects in this verse emphasize the attitude the psalmist maintains toward God’s law. Another option is to translate with the future tense, “I will find delight…I will not forget.”
2 tn Heb “your word.” Many medieval Hebrew
3 tn Or “even though.”
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).
5 tn Heb “in the smoke.”
6 tn Heb “my life [is] in my hands continually.”
