Psalms 50:17
Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
In Context
18If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.
Cross References
1 Kings 14:9But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made thee strange gods and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:29Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,
Proverbs 8:36But he that shall sin against me, shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
Proverbs 15:10Instruction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way of life: he that hateth reproof shall die.
Jeremiah 8:9The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in 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 →