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34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
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Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. …
JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 33-34)Here, I. David prays earnestly that God himself would be his teacher; he had prophets, and wise men, and priests, about him, and was himself well instructed in the law of God, yet he begs to be taught of God, as knowing that none teaches like him , Job 36:22. Observe here, 1. What he desires to be taught, not the notions or language of God’s statutes, but the way of them—“the way of applying them…
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