Too Much Poetic License

You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness and great faithfulness.  Psalm 119:138  NASB In righteousness – Even in Hebrew this sentence doesn’t seem to work very well.  The English just makes it worse. Chabad translates it as “You commanded Your testimonies, [which are] righteousness, and they are exceedingly faithful.”  The translators have to add “which are” to…