Psalm 16:11
New International Version
You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

New Living Translation
You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever.

English Standard Version
You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Berean Standard Bible
You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

King James Bible
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

New King James Version
You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

New American Standard Bible
You will make known to me the way of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

NASB 1995
You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

NASB 1977
Thou wilt make known to me the path of life; In Thy presence is fulness of joy; In Thy right hand there are pleasures forever.

Legacy Standard Bible
You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

Amplified Bible
You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Christian Standard Bible
You reveal the path of life to me; in your presence is abundant joy; at your right hand are eternal pleasures.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You reveal the path of life to me; in Your presence is abundant joy; in Your right hand are eternal pleasures.

American Standard Version
Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You will show me your path of life and I shall be full of the joy of your face and of the sweetness of the victory of your right hand.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou wilt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand there are delights for ever.

Contemporary English Version
You have shown me the path to life, and you make me glad by being near to me. Sitting at your right side, I will always be joyful.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to the end.

English Revised Version
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; in thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You make the path of life known to me. Complete joy is in your presence. Pleasures are by your side forever.

Good News Translation
You will show me the path that leads to life; your presence fills me with joy and brings me pleasure forever.

International Standard Version
You cause me to know the path of life; in your presence is joyful abundance, at your right hand there are pleasures forever.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou makest me to know the path of life; In Thy presence is fulness of joy, In Thy right hand bliss for evermore.

Literal Standard Version
You cause me to know the path of life; In Your presence [is] fullness of joys, | Pleasant things [are] by Your right hand forever!

Majority Standard Bible
You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

New American Bible
You will show me the path to life, abounding joy in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever.

NET Bible
You lead me in the path of life; I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight.

New Revised Standard Version
You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

New Heart English Bible
You make known to me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

World English Bible
You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou causest me to know the path of life; Fulness of joys is with Thy presence, Pleasant things by Thy right hand for ever!

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Presence of God
10For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay. 11You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand.

Cross References
Matthew 7:14
But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Job 36:11
If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.

Psalm 11:7
For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.

Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.

Psalm 21:6
For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.

Psalm 36:7
How precious is Your loving devotion, O God, that the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings!

Psalm 36:8
They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.


Treasury of Scripture

You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for ever more.

path

Psalm 21:4
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

Proverbs 2:19
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

in thy

Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

Psalm 21:5,6
His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him…

Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

at thy

Mark 16:19
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

Acts 7:56
And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

1 Peter 3:22
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

pleasures

Psalm 36:8
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

Matthew 25:33,46
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left…

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(11) There are.--The italics in the Authorised Version spoil the triplet:--

"Thou wilt show me the path of life,

In thy presence fulness and joy,

At thy right hand pleasures for evermore."

It is another image for the same thought which dominates the psalm--the thought of the happiness of being with God. The fair heritage, the serene happiness, the enduring pleasure always to be found at God's right hand, are all different modes of expressing the same sense of complete satisfaction and peace given by a deep religious trust touched, ever so faintly, by a ray of a larger hope beginning to triumph over death itself.

Verse 11. - Thou wilt show me the path of life; i.e. the path which leads to the Source and Centre of all life, even God himself - the way to heaven, in contrast with corruption and Sheol. In thy presence is fulness of joy; literally, satiety of joy - enough, and more than enough, to satisfy the extremest cravings of the human heart. At thy right hand; rather, in thy right hand - ready for bestowal on thy saints. Are pleasures for evermore. An inexhaustible store, which may be drawn upon for ever.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You have made known to me
תּֽוֹדִיעֵנִי֮ (tō·w·ḏî·‘ê·nî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 3045: To know

the path
אֹ֤רַח (’ō·raḥ)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 734: A well-trodden road, a caravan

of life;
חַ֫יִּ֥ים (ḥay·yîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 2416: Alive, raw, fresh, strong, life

You will fill me
שֹׂ֣בַע (śō·ḇa‘)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7648: Satisfaction, joy)

with joy
שְׂ֭מָחוֹת (mā·ḥō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8057: Blithesomeness, glee

in Your presence
פָּנֶ֑יךָ (pā·ne·ḵā)
Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6440: The face

with eternal
נֶֽצַח׃ (ne·ṣaḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5331: Eminence, enduring, everlastingness, perpetuity

pleasures
נְעִמ֖וֹת (nə·‘i·mō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 5273: Pleasant, delightful

at Your right hand.
בִּימִינְךָ֣ (bî·mî·nə·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3225: The right hand, side, the south


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