⁹² Unless Thy law `were' my delights, Then had I perished in mine affliction.

¹³ I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!

¹⁸ If I have said, `My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

¹⁹ In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.

²⁴ Thy testimonies also `are' my delight, The men of my counsel!

⁷⁷ Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law `is' my delight.

¹⁴³ Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands `are' my delights.

²² In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked -- it talketh `with' thee.

²³ For a lamp `is' the command, And the law a light, And a way of life `are' reproofs of instruction,

⁴ for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.