Psalms 119:96 meaning and explanation

I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your commandment is without limit.

Psalms 119:96, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is a faithful worshipper, likely a teacher of wisdom, who has surveyed human experience and found that every earthly thing reaches its limit. The Hebrew word for "limit" carries the sense of an end or boundary, and "perfection" here means completeness or finish in any created thing.

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