Psalms 50:17
For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
BSB
ASV
Seeing that thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?
KJV
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Seeing thou hatest instruction. Profane professors are often too wise to learn, too besotted with conceit to be taught of God. What a monstrosity that men should declare those statutes which with their hearts they do not know, and which in their lives they openly disavow! Woe unto the men who hate the instruction which they take upon themselves to give. And castest my words behind thee. Despising them, throwing them away as worthless, putting them out of sight as obnoxious.
They are unworthy to use even the words of God's law. Their hypocrisy and vice are exposed by illustrations from sins against the seventh, eighth, and ninth commandments. God, no longer (even in appearance) disregarding such, exposes their sins and threatens a terrible punishment.
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Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
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Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.
He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.
Oh, how I love Your law! All day long it is my meditation.
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.
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Nehemiah 9:26But 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.
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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.
And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.
Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,
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