Psalms 119:66 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

TETH.

Psalms 119:66. Teach me good judgment Whereby I may rightly discern between truth and falsehood, good and evil; that so I may be kept from those errors in which many are involved, and may clearly understand what thy law requires or permits, and what it forbids. The Hebrew, שׂוב שׂעם, properly signifies goodness of taste, referring to the palate; and it is only figuratively and by way of analogy that it signifies goodness of judgment, or the good sense and discernment of the mind. And knowledge A spiritual and experimental knowledge, added to that sense of, and relish for, divine things, implied in the former clause. For I have believed thy commandments I have believed the divine authority of them, and the truth and certainty of those promises and threatenings wherewith thou hast enforced them.

Psalms 119:66

66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.