Psalms Chapter 119 verse 71 Holy Bible
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn thy statutes.
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It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I may learn your statutes.
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Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 71. - It is good for me that I have been afflicted (see the comment on ver. 67). That I might learn thy statutes. The whole nation "learnt God's statutes" by the affliction of the Babylonish Captivity. Individuals "learnt" them equally by their special chastisements.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(71) It is good . . .--See Psalm 119:67. Probably the result of discipline on the nation is intended, though the "sweet uses of adversity" were long ago a truism of moralists. See 'sch., Agam., 172:"Who guideth mortals to wisdom, maketh them grasp loreFirmly through their pain."