“For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.”
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke; yet I have not forgotten your statutes. The metaphor of deterioration ('like a wineskin in the smoke') contrasts with the remembered law ('have not forgotten your statutes'). This verse indicates that the law remains even when the body fails.
Church Fathers on Psalms 119:83
1. From its commencement, dearly beloved, does this great Psalm exhort us unto bliss, which there is no one who desires not....And therefore this is the lesson which he teaches, who says, “Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord” Psalm 118:1. As much as to say, I know what you wish, you are seeking bliss: if then you would be blessed, be undefiled. For the former all desire, the latter fear: yet without it what all wish cannot be…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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