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72The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
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Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. …
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. …
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 72)This is a reason why David reckoned that when by his afflictions he learned God’s statutes, an the profit did so much counterbalance the loss, he was really a gainer by them; for God’s law , which he got acquaintance with by his affliction, was better to him than all the gold and silver which he lost by his affliction. 1. David had but a little of the word of God in comparison with what we have, y…
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