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Psalms Chapter 119 verse 96 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 119:96

MEM. I have seen an end of all perfection; `But' thy commandment is exceeding broad.
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BBE Psalms 119:96

I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide.
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DARBY Psalms 119:96

I have seen an end of all perfection: thy commandment is exceeding broad.
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KJV Psalms 119:96

I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.
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WBT Psalms 119:96


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WEB Psalms 119:96

I have seen a limit to all perfection, But your commands are boundless.
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YLT Psalms 119:96

Of all perfection I have seen an end, Broad `is' Thy command -- exceedingly!
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Psalms 119 : 96 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 96. - I have seen an end of all perfection; i.e. to all other perfection I have seen, and see, a limit; but there is no limit to the perfection of thy Law. Thy commandment is exceeding broad. Unlimited - measureless in its range. It inculcates on man an absolute perfection.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(96) I have seen.--The exact thought of the psalmist here is doubtful, and it offers such a wide application, embracing so many truths of experience, that possibly he had more than one meaning in his mind. Keeping as close to the context as possible, the meaning will be: "To all perfection (or apparent perfection) a limit is visible, but the Divine Law is boundless alike in its scope and its requirements." This, translated into the language of modern ideas, merely says that the actual can never correspond with the ideal:"Who keeps a spirit wholly trueTo that ideal which he bears?"But in the word end in Hebrew, as in English, there is a limitation in time, as in space (see Job 26:10; Job 28:3; comp. Symmachus, "I have seen the end of all settled things"), and the Prayer Book version may really give the psalmist's thought as indicating the difference between mere change and progress."The old order changeth, yielding place to new,And God fulfils Himself in many ways,Lest one good custom should corrupt the world."TENNYSON: Morte d'Arthur. . . .