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168I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
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For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; …
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 167-168)David’s conscience here witnesses for him, I. That his practices were good. 1. He loved God’s testimonies, he loved them exceedingly. Our love to the word of God must be a superlative love (we must love it better than the wealth and pleasure of this world), and it must be a victorious love, such as will subdue and mortify our lusts and extirpate carnal affections. 2. He kept them, his soul kept th…
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