Or, "I have got understanding by the ancients"; so Kimchi; though the other sense seems preferable;because I keep thy precepts; keep close to the word; attend to the reading of it, and meditation on it; keep it in mind and memory, and observe to do the commands of it; and by that means obtained a good understanding, even a better one than the ancients; especially than they that were without it, or did not carefully attend unto it; see Ps 111:10
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Job 32:6
Job 32:6
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