Psalms Chapter 119 verse 118 Holy Bible
Thou hast set at nought all them that err from thy statutes; For their deceit is falsehood.
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You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false.
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Thou hast set at nought all them that wander from thy statutes; for their deceit is falsehood.
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Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.
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You reject all those who stray from your statutes, For their deceit is in vain.
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Thou hast trodden down All going astray from Thy statutes, For falsehood `is' their deceit.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 118. - Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes; rather, thou despisest all them that go astray from thy statutes. Thou makest light of them. The LXX. have, ἐξουδένωσας For their deceit is falsehood. "Their subtle policy is but a lie" (Kay). It rests on lies, and ends in disappointment.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(118) Trodden down.--Better, thou despisest. So LXX. and Vulg. Aquila, "Thou hast impaled." Symmachus, "Thou hast convicted." Literally the word seems to mean to weigh or value, but, from the habit of the buyer beating down the price by depreciating, comes to have a sense of this kind. Mr. Burgess aptly quotes Proverbs 20:14. We may compare the English word cheapen, which originally only meant to buy.For their deceit is falsehood.--Rather, as the parallelism indicates, for their tricks are in vain; or perhaps, to bring out the full intention of the Hebrew, we must paraphrase: "for their wiles are as fruitless as they are deceitful." So Symmachus: "all their craft is vain."
