Therefore I love your commandments more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.
KJV
Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Commentary
Commentary
Therefore I love thy commandments,.... Because he was the Lord's servant, as Aben Ezra; or rather because the wicked made void the law. His love was the more inflamed and increased towards it by the contempt it was had in by others; he preferred it
above gold, yea, above fine gold; or gold of Phez, a place where the best gold was, as was thought: the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render it "the topaz"; and the Syriac and Arabic versions, "precious stones" or "gems"; see
Psa 119:72
.
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