Mazmur 105:39

105:39 He spread out a cloud for a cover, ¹ 

and provided a fire to light up the night.

Mazmur 119:130

119:130 Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. ² 

They give ³  insight to the untrained. ⁴ 

[105:39]  ¹ tn Or “curtain.”

[119:130]  ² tn Heb “the doorway of your words gives light.” God’s “words” refer here to the instructions in his law (see vv. 9, 57).

[119:130]  ³ tn Heb “it [i.e., the doorway] gives.”

[119:130]  ⁴ tn Or “the [morally] naive,” that is, the one who is young and still in the process of learning right from wrong and distinguishing wisdom from folly. See Pss 19:7; 116:6.