Psalms 119:130

Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. ¹  They give ²  insight to the untrained. ³ 

The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.

The unfolding of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.

As your words are taught, they give light; even the simple can understand them.

Break open your words, let the light shine out, let ordinary people see the meaning.

The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.

The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.

Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. ¹  They give ²  insight to the untrained. ³ 

¹ tn Heb “the doorway of your words gives light.” God’s “words” refer here to the instructions in his law (see vv. 9, 57).

² tn Heb “it [i.e., the doorway] gives.”

³ 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.