Psalms 19:10

“More to be desired [are they] than gold, etc.] This refers to all the truths in the word of God; to all the doctrines of the Gospel; which, by good men, are more desirable, and by them more prized and valued, than all worldly riches and treasure; yea, than much fine gold: more than gold, and the best of gold, and a great deal of it, than thousands of gold and silver; (see <19B972>Psalm 119:72,127) (<200810>Proverbs 8:10,11); sweeter also than honey, and the honeycomb; or “the dropping of the honeycombs” f303, which is the purest and sweetest of the honey; and what honey is to the natural taste of men, that is the Gospel, and the truths of it, to the spiritual taste of believers,…”

“More to be desired are they than gold - That is, his law; or, as in the preceding verse, his judgments. They are more valuable than gold; they are of such a nature that the soul should more desire to be in possession of them than to be in possession of gold, and should value them more. The psalmist here and in the following verses describes his estimate of the worth of revealed truth as he perceived it. In the previous verses he had shown its value in the abstract; he here speaks of his own feelings in regard to it, and shows that he esteems it more than he did the objects most prized and valued among men. Yea, than much fine gold - The word used here - פז pâz - means properly that which is…”

“than gold: Psa 119:72, Psa 119:127; Job 28:15-17; Pro 3:13-15, Pro 8:10, Pro 8:11, Pro 8:19, Pro 16:16 sweeter: Psa 63:5, Psa 119:103; Job 23:12; Pro 24:13 honeycomb: Heb. the dropping of honey-combs, Sa1 14:26-29 Psalms 19:11”

“(Heb.: 19:10-14) With הנּחמדים (for which, preferring a simple Sheb with the gutturals, Ben-Naphtali writes הנּחמּמדים) the poet sums up the characteristics enumerated; the article is summative, as in השּׁשּׁי at the close of the hexahemeron, Gen 1:31. פּז is the finest purified gold, cf. Kg1 10:18 with Ch2 9:17. נפת צוּפים "the discharge (from נפת = Arab. nft) of the honeycombs" is the virgin honey, i.e., the honey that flows of itself out of the cells. To be desired are the revealed words of God, to him who possesses them as an outward possession; and to him who has received them inwardly they are sweet. The poet, who is himself conscious of being a servant of God, and of striving to act…”