Psalms 119:71

WEB

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

KJV

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Commentary

Commentary

It is good for me that I have been afflicted,.... The good and profit of which he had obse rved before; See Gill on Psa 119:67 . The following end being also answered thereby, that I might learn thy statutes; to understand them, and to keep them. Afflictions are sometimes as a school to the people of God, in which they learn much both of their duty and of their privileges; and when they are teaching and instructive, they are for good; see Psa 94:12 .