Psalm 119:109 {118:109}
Good News Translation
I am always ready to risk my life; I have not forgotten your law.

New Revised Standard Version
I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget your law.

Contemporary English Version
I never forget your teachings, although my life is always in danger.

New American Bible
My life is always at risk, but I do not forget your law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten thy law.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten thy law.

my soul.

Judges 12:3 And when I saw this, I put my life in my own hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon and the Lord delivered them into my hands. What have I deserved, that you should rise up to fight against me?

1 Samuel 19:5 And he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought great salvation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst rejoice. Why therefore wilt thou sin against innocent blood, by killing David, who is without fault?

1 Samuel 20:3 And he swore again to David. And David said: Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there is but one step (as I may say) between me and death.

Job 13:14 Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?

Romans 8:36 (As it is written: For thy sake, we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)

1 Corinthians 15:31 I die daily, I protest by your glory, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 11:23 They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise): I am more; in many more labours, in prisons more frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

yet do I not

Psalm 119:83,117,152 For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications. . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
108The free offerings of my mouth make acceptable, O Lord: and teach me thy judgments. 109My soul is continually in my hands: and I have not forgotten thy law.110Sinners have laid a snare for me: but I have not erred from thy precepts.…
Cross References
Judges 12:3
And when I saw this, I put my life in my own hands, and passed over against the children of Ammon and the Lord delivered them into my hands. What have I deserved, that you should rise up to fight against me?

1 Samuel 19:5
And he put his life in his hand, and slew the Philistine, and the Lord wrought great salvation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst rejoice. Why therefore wilt thou sin against innocent blood, by killing David, who is without fault?

Job 13:14
Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?

Psalm 119:16
I will think of thy justifications: I will not forget thy words.

Ecclesiastes 9:1
All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred:

Psalm 119:108
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