I have esteemed and treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. - Job 23:12 As David sat on his throne, he often thought about the God who he had known and who was responsible for holding David up through all the troubles he had with Saul and other enemies. He said that he desired to be in the house of Adonai [ Lord ] than else where, but this had a reason. The factors that made this reasons are many, but the reason is this. David had a heart for God. A longing, a passionate desire to love and serve the God of Israel. But the one who said the verse " I have esteemed and treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food " did not have a background story that we know of like that of David's. All Job was a well off man, in the region of Mesopotamia, Ur or possibly in the modern Middle East regions of Iran, Iraq, or Israel. It would have been really cool, if Job had said this verse, at any other time, but the time Job said...
....giving up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally