Psalms 50:17
Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 14:9But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
Proverbs 1:29For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
Proverbs 8:36But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.
Proverbs 15:10There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.
Jeremiah 8:9The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?
Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:17-23
The Character of the Wicked. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done,… Read the whole commentary →