Psalms 19:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

More to be desired are they than gold Than the wealth of this world, although so generally preferred before them; yea, than much fine gold Than gold of the best quality, and in the greatest quantity; than all the treasures and precious things which are brought from other countries. Sweeter also Namely, to the soul of the pious believer; than honey and the honeycomb Than the sweetest thing we know of is to the bodily taste: yielding more true, and noble, and lasting satisfaction and happiness than any or all the delights of sense. Observe, reader, the pleasures of sense are the delight of brutes, and therefore debase the soul of man: the pleasures of religion are the delight of angels, and exalt it. The pleasures of sense are deceitful, they soon surfeit, and yet never satisfy; but those of religion are substantial, and satisfying, and there is no danger of exceeding in the pursuit or enjoyment of them.