Psalmen 119:71

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

Het is mij goed, dat ik verdrukt ben geweest; opdat ik uw inzettingen leerde.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
Het is mij lief, dat Gij mij verootmoedigd hebt, opdat ik uwe rechten lere.

Staten Vertaling
Het is mij goed, dat ik verdrukt ben geweest, opdat ik Uw inzettingen leerde.

Bible Verse Review
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good: Psalms 119:67, Psalms 94:12, Psalms 94:13, Isaiah 27:9, 1 Corinthians 11:32, Hebrews 12:10, Hebrews 12:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 50:20 - God meant Leviticus 26:43 - and they 2 Chronicles 33:19 - before he Job 33:19 - chastened Job 36:9 - he Psalms 119:12 - teach Psalms 119:45 - for I seek Ecclesiastes 7:3 - is better Ecclesiastes 7:14 - but Jeremiah 24:5 - them that are carried away captive Lamentations 3:27 - bear Micah 2:7 - do not Matthew 20:34 - and they 2 Corinthians 4:17 - worketh Hebrews 12:6 - whom James 1:12 - the man James 4:9 - afflicted

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[It is] good for me that I have been afflicted,.... The good and profit of which he had observed before; :-. 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 Psalms 94:12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is good for me that I have been afflicted - See the notes at Psalms 119:67. Whatever may have been the form of the affliction, it was good for me. The design was benevolent; the result has been my own benefit. This will be the experience sooner or later resulting from all the afflictions of the righteous.

That I might learn thy statutes - That I might be brought more fully to understand what they require; and that I might be led to conform to them. It is implied here

(a) that this is the tendency of affliction; and

(b) that this is an advantage - a good.

Anything that will lead a man to obey God is a blessing and a favor. Whatever leads a sinner to secure the salvation of his soul is a gain to him. No matter what it may cost; no matter what he may be required to give up; no matter to what persecutions and troubles it may expose him; no matter what he may suffer, or how long he may suffer; no matter though poverty, contempt, toil - even the rack or the stake - may be the consequence of his religion - yet it is again to him; and he will be thankful for it in the end - for nothing that can be endured in this life can be compared with the sufferings of the world of despair; nothing on earth can be “compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us in heaven.” See the notes at Romans 8:18.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted — See on Psalms 119:67.