Psalms 17:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לִפְעֻלּ֣וֹת אָ֭דָם בִּדְבַ֣ר שְׂפָתֶ֑יךָ אֲנִ֥י שָׁ֝מַ֗רְתִּי אָרְח֥וֹת פָּרִֽיץ׃

Transliteration

Lifǝ'ullôt 'ādām bidbar śǝfāteykā 'ănî šāmartî 'ārḥôt pārîṣ

Grammar Details

• *Lifǝ'ullôt*: preposition + noun, feminine plural construct - as for the deeds/actions of
• *'ādām*: noun, masculine singular - man/mankind/humanity
• *bidbar*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - by/in the word of
• *śǝfāteykā*: noun, feminine dual + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your lips
• *'ănî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I
• *šāmartî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have kept/guarded/observed
• *'ārḥôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - paths/ways of
• *pārîṣ*: noun, masculine singular - violent one/robber/breaker

Word Meanings

• *pārîṣ*: violent one/robber/breaker/outlaw

Referenced Verses

• Gen 6:5 : 5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Gen 6:11 : 11 And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Job 15:16 : 16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
• Job 31:33 : 33 If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,
• Ps 14:1-3 : 1 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good. 2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. 3 They are all gone aside; They are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Ps 119:9-9 : 9 BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed [thereto] according to thy word. 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments. 11 Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.
• Prov 2:10-15 : 10 For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul; 11 Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee: 12 To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things; 13 Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness; 14 Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil; 15 Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:
• Matt 4:4 : 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
• Matt 4:7 : 7 Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God.
• Matt 4:10 : 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
• John 17:17 : 17 Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.
• 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?
• Eph 6:17 : 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
• Jas 1:18 : 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
• 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past {G979} may suffice {G2254} to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
• 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be watchful: {G3754} your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
• Rev 9:11 : 11 {G2532} They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek [tongue] he hath the name Apollyon.
• Rev 12:11 : 11 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.