119:104 Your precepts give me discernment.
Therefore I hate all deceitful actions. 1
119:118 You despise 2 all who stray from your statutes,
for they are deceptive and unreliable. 3
1 tn Heb “every false path.”
2 tn The Hebrew verb סָלָה (salah, “to disdain”) occurs only here and in Lam 1:15. Cognate usage in Aramaic and Akkadian, as well as Lam 1:15, suggest it may have a concrete nuance of “to throw away.”
3 tn Heb “for their deceit [is] falsehood.”