Psalms 50:17
Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
In Context
18If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.
Cross References
1 Kings 14:9and thou dost evil above all who have been before thee, and goest, and makest to thee other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and Me thou hast cast behind thy back:
Proverbs 1:7Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
Proverbs 1:29Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
Proverbs 8:36And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!
Proverbs 15:10Chastisement [is] grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth.
Jeremiah 8:9Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what — have they?
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 →