Psalms 118:98
Through thy commandment, thou hast made me wiser than my enemies: for it is ever with me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Super inimicos meos prudentem me fecisti mandato tuo, quia in æternum mihi est.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὑπὲρ τοὺς ἐχθρούς μου ἐσόφισάς με τὰς ἐντολάς σου, ὅτι εἰς τὸν αἰῶνά μοί ἐστιν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 119:98
- מֵ֭אֹ֣יְבַי תְּחַכְּמֵ֣נִי מִצְוֺתֶ֑ךָ כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם הִיא לִֽי
Haydock's commentary
Enemies of salvation, (Berthier) or the Babylonians, whom Daniel far surpassed; though we would not absolutely assert that it refers to him, Daniel i. 19., and xiii. 1., and Ezechiel xxviii. 3. (Calmet)
David was no less enlightened (Berthier) by the prophetic spirit above his earthly instructor, how aged soever. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Mem
98. And he then addeth: “Thou hast made me to understand Thy commandment above mine enemies; for it is ever with me” ( ver. 98 ). For “they have indeed a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,” etc. But the Psalmist, who understandeth the commandment of God above these his enemies, wishes to be found with the Apostle, “not having” his “own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is of the faith of Christ, which is of God;” not that the Law which his enemies read is not of God, but because they do not understand it, like him who understandeth it above his enemies, by clinging to the Stone upon which they stumbled. …