Psalm 139:3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.

English Standard Version
You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.

New American Standard Bible
You scrutinize my path and my lying down, And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

King James Bible
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You observe my travels and my rest; You are aware of all my ways.

International Standard Version
You scrutinize my life and my rest; you are familiar with all of my ways.

American Standard Version
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;

Young's Literal Translation
My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And with all my ways hast been acquainted.

Cross References

Job 14:16
For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?

Job 31:4
Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

Psalm 56:8
You tell my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?

Psalm 119:168
I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways are before you.

Daniel 5:23
But have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you, and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine in them; and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, have you not glorified:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

139:1-6 God has perfect knowledge of us, and all our thoughts and actions are open before him. It is more profitable to meditate on Divine truths, applying them to our own cases, and with hearts lifted to God in prayer, than with a curious or disputing frame of mind. That God knows all things, is omniscient; that he is every where, is omnipresent; are truths acknowledged by all, yet they are seldom rightly believed in by mankind. God takes strict notice of every step we take, every right step and every by step. He knows what rule we walk by, what end we walk toward, what company we walk with. When I am withdrawn from all company, thou knowest what I have in my heart. There is not a vain word, not a good word, but thou knowest from what thought it came, and with what design it was uttered. Wherever we are, we are under the eye and hand of God. We cannot by searching find how God searches us out; nor do we know how we are known. Such thoughts should restrain us from sin.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

PSALM 139

Ps 139:1-24. After presenting the sublime doctrines of God's omnipresence and omniscience, the Psalmist appeals to Him, avowing his innocence, his abhorrence of the wicked, and his ready submission to the closest scrutiny. Admonition to the wicked and comfort to the pious are alike implied inferences from these doctrines.