Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 119:3
They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
3. ’Imrh, ‘saying,’ or collectively ‘sayings,’ LXX (19 times), is a poetical synonym for dbr, rare in prose, but found in Isa 5:24 in parallelism with trh. Cp. Deu 33:9.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
3. This verse is to be connected with the preceding one:
Yea, have wrought no unrighteousness,
Have walked in his ways.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
They also do no iniquity – See the notes at 1Jo 3:9. The meaning is, that they are righteous; their character is that they do that which is right. It cannot mean that all persons who are religious are actually and absolutely perfect – for no man would hold this opinion; no one does hold it. It is general language such as is commonly used to describe an upright or righteous man. The declaration is true of all who are the friends of God – or, who are truly; religious – in the following senses:
(1) That they are habitually and characteristically righteous;
(2) That they intend to do right – for a man who deliberately purposes to do wrong – to lead a life of sin and disobedience, cannot be a pious man.
(3) That when they do err, it is not the result of intention, or the design of their life, but because they are tempted; are overcome with passion; are led by the power of their native corruption of heart to act contrary to their better judgment and their true character.
See Rom 7:14-17. On the other hand, it is true that a man who is not characteristically righteous; who is not an upright man in his dealings; who is not true, and honest, and temperate, and just, and benevolent, cannot be a child of God and heir of heaven. No exactness of orthodoxy, and no fervour of emotion, and no zeal in the cause of religion, can constitute true piety without this.
They walk in his ways – Habitually; constantly; characteristically. They are not merely honest, upright, and just in their dealings with men, but they walk in the ways of God; they are religious.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 3. They also do no iniquity] They avoid all idolatry, injustice, and wrong; and they walk in God’s ways, not in those ways to which an evil heart might entice them, nor those in which the thoughtless and the profligate tread.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Do no iniquity; or, are not workers of iniquity, i.e. do not knowingly, and resolvedly, and industriously, and customarily continue in sinful courses. So this phrase is understood Job 31:3; 34:8; Psa 5:5; 6:8; 125:5; Pro 10:29; Luk 13:27; otherwise there is not a just man upon earth that sinneth not, Ecc 7:20.
They walk: this is their constant practice, and the general course of their lives, which is commonly signified by walking, as Psa 1:1, and every where.
In his ways; in the paths which God hath prescribed to them.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
3. his waysthe course Hereveals as right.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
They also do no iniquity,…. Not that they are free from indwelling sin, nor from the acts of sin, nor that what they do are not sins; but they do not make a trade of sinning, it is not the course of their lives; nor do they do iniquity with that ease and pleasure, without reluctance and remorse, as others do: or rather as new creatures, as born again, they do not and cannot commit sin; for the new man is pure, spiritual, and holy; and nothing can come out of that, or be done by it, which is the contrary. This is a distinct I from the old man, or corrupt nature, to which all the actions of sin are to be ascribed; see 1Jo 3:9;
they walk in his ways; in the ways of God and Christ, into which they are guided and directed, and where they are kept, and in which they find both pleasure and profit. Here end the descriptive characters of good and happy men.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
3. Surely they do not work iniquity The statement, that they who follow God as their guide do not work iniquity, may seem to be a mere common-place, and universally admitted truth. The prophet has two reasons for making it; first, to teach us that our life must be entirely under the direction of God; and, secondly, that we may more diligently and carefully attend to his doctrine. It is acknowledged by every one, that those who render obedience to God are in no danger of going astray, and yet every one is found turning aside to his own ways. Does not such licentiousness or presumption palpably demonstrate that they have a greater regard for their own devices than for the unerring law of God? And after all, as often as a man happens to fall, is not the plea of inadvertence instantly alleged, as if none ever sinned knowingly and voluntarily; or as if the law of God, which is an antidote to all delinquencies, because it keeps all our vicious propensities in check, did not furnish us with sufficient wisdom to put us upon our guard? The prophet, therefore, very justly declares, that those who are instructed in the law of God, cannot set up the plea of ignorance when they fall into sin, seeing they are willfully blind. Were they to attend carefully to God’s voice, they would be well fortified against all the snares of Satan. To strike them with terror, he informs them in the fourth verse, that God demands a rigid observance of the law; from which it may be gathered, that he will not suffer the contemners of it to escape with impunity. Besides, by speaking to God in the second person, he places him before our eyes as a Judge.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Psa 119:3. They also do no iniquity Or, That also do no iniquity; that walk in his ways. For they commit no iniquity who walk in his ways. Green and Mudge.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
This is a precious verse. The new creature in Christ lives upon Christ; and as long as the soul thus lives upon him as his life and source, he walks in him, and is living to him and with him. 1Pe 2:2 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 119:3 They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
Ver. 3. They also do no iniqaity ] i.e. No wilful wickedness; as do those workers of iniquity, whose whole trade it is, and whose whole life is nothing else but one continued web of wickedness, spun out and made up by the hands of the devil and the flesh, an evil spinner, and a worse weaver.
They walk in his ways
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
iniquity = perversity. Hebrew. ‘aval. App-44.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
1Jo 3:9, 1Jo 5:18
Reciprocal: Job 22:3 – thou makest Eph 2:10 – walk Jam 1:25 – this
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
119:3 They also do {b} no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
(b) For they are ruled by God’s Spirit and embrace no doctrine but his.