Discovery BoxPsalms 119:98-100 
Context119:98 Your commandments 1 make me wiser than my enemies,
for I am always aware of them.
119:99 I have more insight than all my teachers,
for I meditate on your rules.
119:100 I am more discerning than those older than I,
for I observe your precepts.
Psalms 119:104-105
Context119:104 Your precepts give me discernment.
Therefore I hate all deceitful actions. 2
נ (Nun)
119:105 Your word 3 is a lamp to walk by,
and a light to illumine my path. 4
Psalms 119:130
Context119:130 Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. 5
1 tn The plural form needs to be revocalized as a singular in order to agree with the preceding singular verb and the singular pronoun in the next line. The
2 tn Heb “every false path.”
3 tn Many medieval Hebrew
4 tn Heb “[is] a lamp for my foot and a light for my path.”
5 tn Heb “the doorway of your words gives light.” God’s “words” refer here to the instructions in his law (see vv. 9, 57).
6 tn Heb “it [i.e., the doorway] gives.”
7 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.
