Psalms 50:17
15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
16 To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
19 You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
- KJV
- Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
- WEB
- since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
- ASV
- Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?
- DARBY
- Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?
- BLB
- And you have hated instruction, and cast My words behind you!
- ÅB
- Du hater jo tukt og kaster mine ord bak deg.
- OTB
- For du forakter tilrettevisning,
Og du kaster Mine ord til side. - B1930
- Du hater jo tukt og kaster mine ord bak dig.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nehemiah 9:26
But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
Read in contextProverbs 12:1
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
Read in context2 Timothy 4:3–4
For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
Read in contextProverbs 1:28–29
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
Read in context1 Kings 14:9
You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
Read in contextProverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Read in contextRomans 2:21–23
you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
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