Psalms 119:141

I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

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WEBBE

I am small and despised. I don’t forget your precepts.

BSB

I am lowly and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.

KJV

I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

ASV

I am small and despised; [Yet] do I not forget thy precepts.

BBE

I am small and of no account; but I keep your orders in mind.

Original Hebrew

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צָעִיר tza·'ir [am] insignificant H6810 אָנֹכִי 'a·no·khi I H595 וְנִבְזֶה ve·niv·zeh and [am] despised H959 פִּקֻּדֶיךָ pi·ku·dei·cha precepts your H6490 לֹא lo' not H3808 שָׁכָחְתִּי sha·kha·che·ti I have forgotten H7911

The early church

"I am young, and of no reputation; yet do I not forget Thy righteousnesses:" not as my enemies, who "have forgotten Thy words" (ver. 141). The younger seems to grieve for those older than himself who had forgotten the righteousnesses of God, while he himself had not forgotten. For what meaneth, "I am young, yet do I not forget"? save this, Those older than me have forgotten. For the Greek word is νεώτερος, the same as that used in the words above, "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?" This is a comparative, and is therefore well understood in its relation to some one older. Let us therefore here recognize the two nations, who were striving even in Rebecca's womb; when it was said to her, not from works, but of Him that calleth, "The elder shall serve the younger." But the younger saith here that he is of no reputation: for this reason he hath become greater: since "behold, they that were first are last, and they that were last first."

Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Expositions on the Psalms

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 137–144

God never did, and never can do wrong to any. The promises are faithfully performed by Him that made them. Zeal against sin should constrain us to do what we can against it, at least to do more in religion ourselves. Our love to the word of God is evidence of our love to God, because it is designed to make us partake his holiness. Men's real excellency always makes them low in their own eyes. When we are small and despised, we have the more need to remember God's precepts, that we may have them to support us. The law of God is the truth, the standard of holiness, the rule of happiness; but the obedience of Christ alone justifies the believer. Sorrows are often the lot of saints in this vale of tears; they are in heaviness through manifold temptations. There are delights in the word of God, which the saints often most sweetly enjoy when in trouble and anguish. This is life eternal, to know God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent, Joh 17:3. May we live the life of faith and grace here, and be removed to the life of glory hereafter.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.