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10More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
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How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. …
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-14)God’s glory, (that is, his goodness to man) appears much in the works of creation, but much more in and by divine revelation. The holy scripture, as it is a rule both of our duty to God and of our expectation from him, is of much greater use and benefit to us than day or night, than the air we breathe in, or the light of the sun. The discoveries made of God by his works might have served if man ha…
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