Nehemiah 9:26(v17)“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against…
Matthew 10:21(v20)“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to…
Proverbs 12:1(v17)Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
2 Timothy 4:3-4(v17)For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after…
Proverbs 1:28-29(v17)Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me; because they hated knowledge,…
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1 Kings 14:9(v17)but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger,…
Psalms 10:7(v19)His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
Romans 1:32(v18)who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those…
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12(v17)and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be…
Proverbs 1:7(v17)The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Jeremiah 8:9(v17)The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?
Romans 1:28(v17)Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
Romans 2:21-23(v17)You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal? You who say a man…
1 Timothy 5:22(v18)Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.
Leviticus 19:16(v20)“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.
Psalms 52:2-4(v19)Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth.…
Proverbs 5:12-13(v17)and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to…
Proverbs 8:36(v17)But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
Jeremiah 9:5(v19)Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting…
Jeremiah 18:12(v17)But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own plans, and we will each follow the stubbornness of his evil heart.’ ”
John 3:20(v17)For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
Revelation 21:8(v19)But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in…
Psalms 5:9(v19)For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.
Psalms 55:21(v19)His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
Proverbs 10:18(v20)He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.
Isaiah 59:3-4(v19)For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness. No one…
Romans 3:13-14(v19)“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full…
Hebrews 13:4(v18)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
James 3:5-9(v19)So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest! And the tongue is a…
Isaiah 5:23(vv17–18)who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
Leviticus 20:10(v18)“ ‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the…
Job 31:9-11(v18)“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door, then let my wife grind for another, and let others…
Psalms 12:2-3(v19)Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart. May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the…
Psalms 31:18(v20)Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
Psalms 36:3-4(v19)The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a…
Psalms 55:12(v19)For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me,…
Psalms 64:3-5(v19)who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly…
Proverbs 1:10-19(v18)My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent…
Proverbs 2:16-19(v18)to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words, who forsakes the friend of her youth, and…
Proverbs 7:19-23(v18)For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey. He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”…
Jeremiah 5:8-9(v18)They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife. Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says…
Jeremiah 36:23-32(v17)When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all…
Hosea 4:2(v19)There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
Micah 7:3(v18)Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil…
Matthew 5:11(v20)“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Matthew 23:30(v18)and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’
Ephesians 5:11-13(v18)Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of the things which…
Revelation 12:10(v20)I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has…
Luke 22:65(v20)They spoke many other things against him, insulting him.
1 Timothy 3:11(v20)Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.
Titus 2:3(v20)and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,
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John Calvin1540 · Public DomainOn v1717. Also thou hatest correction Here hypocrites are challenged…
17. Also thou hatest correction Here hypocrites are challenged with treacherous duplicity in denying, by their life and their works, that godliness which they have professed with the lip. Their contempt of God he proves from their want of reverential deference to his Word; subjection to the Word of God, and cordial submission to his precepts and instructions, being the surest test of religious principle. One way in which hypocrisy usually displays itself is, by the ingenious excuses it invents for evading the duty of obedience. The Psalmist points to this as the mainspring of their ungodliness, that they had cast the Word of God behind their back, while he insinuates that the principle from which all true worship flows is the obedience of faith. He adverts also to the cause of their perversity, which lies in the unwillingness of their corrupt heart to suffer the yoke of God. They have no hesitation in granting that whatever proceeds from the mouth of God is both true and right; this honor they are willing to concede to his Word; but in so far as it proposes to regulate their conduct, and restrain their sinful affections, they dislike and detest it. Our corruption, indisposing us to receive correction, exasperates us against the Word of God; nor is it possible that we can ever listen to it with true docility and meekness of mind, till we have been brought to give ourselves up to be ruled and disciplined by its precepts. The Psalmist next proceeds to specify some of those works of ungodliness, informing us that hypocrites, who were addicted to theft and adultery, mixed up and polluted the holy name of God with their wickedness. By adverting only to some species of vices, he would intimate, in general, that those who have despised correction, and hardened themselves against instruction, are prepared to launch into every excess which corrupt desire or evil example may suggests. He makes mention, first, of thefts; then of adulteries; and, thirdly, of calumnies or false reproaches. Most interpreters render תרף, tirets, to run, although others derive it from רצה, ratsah, rendering it to consent. Either translation agrees sufficiently with the scope of the Psalmist, and the preference may be left to the reader’s own choice. The charge here brought against hypocrites, that they put forth their mouth to evil, may include not merely slander, but all the different kinds of speaking which injure their neighbors, for it immediately follows, my tongue frameth deceit It is well known in what a variety of ways the lying and deceitful tongue may inflict injury and pain. When it is added, Thou sittest, etc., the allusion may be to one who sits for the passing of a formal judgment; as if it had been said, Thou defamest thy brethren under pretext of issuing a just sentence. Or there may be a reference to petty calumny; such as men maliciously indulge in, and in which they pass their time as they sit at ease in their houses. It seems more probable, however, that he refers to the higher crime of accusing the innocent and righteous in open court, and bringing false charges against them. Brethren, and the children of their mother, are mentioned, the more emphatically to express the cruelty of their calumnies, when they are represented as violating the ties of nature, and not even sparing the nearest relations.
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn vv17, 18, 20And to live according to my word.
And to live according to my word.
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John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv17–20Psa 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my…
Psa 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Ver. 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction] Or discipline, thou wilt not be brought to live strictly, to exercise godliness; thou refusest to be reformed, hatest to be healed. Bucer and Melancthon framed a form of reformation, with approbation of the peers and states; but the clergy of Cullen rejected it with slander, and said that they would rather live under the Great Turk than under a magistrate that should seek to settle such a reformation (Melch. Adam in Vit. Bucer).
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And castest my words behind thee] They are near in thy mouth, but far from thy reins, Jer 12:2; denying in thy life what thou professest with thy lips; Ethiopian like, being white in the mouth only; or as lilies, white, but unsavoury. The Jews at this day show very great respect to the law, which no man may touch but with the right hand, and with a kiss of reverence; no man may carry it behind him, but must lay it next to his heart, in his travel (Schichard). They are enjoined to take up any paper which they see lying on the ground; and the reason is lest haply the name of God be written in the paper, and ignorantly trodden underfoot. Christians, though free from such superstitious curiosity, yet, full of religious care, should observe every tittle in God’s word, lest they should trample upon any. And when corruption boileth (saith a reverend man) think the gospel of Christ, professed by you, lieth prostrate before you; and will ye trample upon that gospel? will ye tread underfoot the blood of the covenant, as if it were a profane thing? Heb 10:29.
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Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv17–20Seeing thy practice contradicts thy profession, and makes thee…
Seeing thy practice contradicts thy profession, and makes thee a notorious and impudent liar. Though with thy mouth thou showest much love (as is said of them, Eze 33:31) to my statutes and counsels, yet in truth thou hatest them, as they are curbs to thy beloved lusts, and instruments of thy just condemnation, and a manifest reproach to thy conversation. Or,
seeing thou hatest reproof, as this word is oft rendered. And this, above all other parts of God’s word, is most hateful to ungodly men, Pro 9:8; Pro 12:1; 15:10,12; Am 5:10. And therefore this is fitly alleged as an evidence of their wickedness.
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Castest my words behind thee; as men do things which they abhor or despise.
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John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv17–20When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with…
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him,.... Or "didst run with him" (a); joined and agreed with him in the commission of the same things; which was literally true of the Scribes and Pharisees: they devoured widows' houses, and robbed them of their substance, under a pretence of long prayers; they consented to the deeds of Barabbas, a robber, when they preferred him to Jesus Christ; and they joined with the thieves on the cross in reviling him: and, in a spiritual sense, they stole away the word of the Lord, every man from his neighbour; took away the key of knowledge from the people, and put false glosses upon the sacred writings;
and hast been a partaker with adulterers; these teachers of the law were guilty both of theft and adultery, Rom 2:21; they are called by our Lord an adulterous generation, Mat 12:39; and they were so in a literal sense; see Joh 8:4; and in a figurative one, adulterating the word of God, and handling it deceitfully.
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(a) , Sept. "currebas cum eo", V. L. sic Eth. Syr. Targum, so Vatablus, Musculus, Piscator, Ainsworth.
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Adam Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn vv17–18Verse 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction] All these rejected…
Verse 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction] All these rejected the counsel of God against themselves; and refused to receive the instructions of Christ.
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Joseph Benson1811 · Public DomainOn vv17–18Psa 50:17. Seeing thou hatest instruction — Seeing thy…
Psa 50:17. Seeing thou hatest instruction — Seeing thy practice contradicts thy profession, and makes thee a notorious and impudent liar. For though with thy mouth thou showest much love to my statutes and counsels, yet, in truth, thou hatest them, as they oppose and hinder the gratification of thy beloved lusts, and are the instruments of thy just condemnation, and a manifest reproach to thy conduct. Or, seeing thou hatest reproof as מוסר, musar, is often rendered. And this, above all other parts of God’s word, is most hateful to ungodly men; and, therefore, this is fitly alleged as an evidence of their wickedness. And castest my words behind thee — As men do things which they abhor and despise.
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Albert Barnes1834 · Public DomainOn vv17–20Seeing thou hatest instruction - That is, He is…
Seeing thou hatest instruction - That is, He is unwilling himself to be taught. He will not learn the true nature of religion, and yet he presumes to instruct others. Compare the notes at Rom 2:21.
And castest my words behind thee - He treated them with contempt, or as unworthy of attention. He did not regard them as worthy of being “retained,” but threw them contemptuously away.
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Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn vv17–2017. Instruction… words—The first refers to discipline, the last…
17. Instruction… words—The first refers to discipline, the last to verbal revelation; the one is designed to nourish and enlighten, the other to govern, the man. Compare “nurture and admonition [instruction and discipline] of the Lord,” Eph_6:4. Both are treated with hatred and contempt by the class now addressed.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv17–2017. instruction] Or, correction; the whole discipline of moral…
17. instruction] Or, correction; the whole discipline of moral education; a word occurring here only in the Psalter, but common in Proverbs, where it is the mark of the fool and the scorner to despise instruction. Cp. Deu_8:5; Deu_11:2.
and castest &c.] Lit., and hast cast, flung them away out of sight and got rid of them. Contrast David’s behaviour, Psa_18:22. My words includes all God’s commandments, but points especially to the ‘ten words’ of the Decalogue (Deu_4:13; cp. Exo_20:1).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn vv18–20(18) Thou consentedst with him—i.e., hast pleasure in. (Comp.…
(18) Thou consentedst with him—i.e., hast pleasure in. (Comp. Job_34:9.)
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The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv17–20Seeing thou hatest instruction. (comp. Pro_1:25, Pro_1:29) God, by…
Seeing thou hatest instruction. (comp. Pro_1:25, Pro_1:29) God, by his Law, teaches men their duties; but many men "hate" to be instructed. And castest my words behind thee. (comp. 1Ki_14:9 Neh_9:26) They proceed from "inward alienation" to "open rejection" of the moral law.
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Charles H. Spurgeon1885 · Public DomainOn vv17–20Ver. 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction. Profane professors are…
Ver. 17. 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. Many boasters of the law did this practically; and in these last days there are pickers and choosers of God's words who cannot endure the practical part of Scripture; they are disgusted at duty, they abhor responsibility, they disembowel texts of their plain meanings, they wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction. It is an ill sign when a man dares not look a Scripture in the face, and an evidence of brazen impudence when he tries to make it mean something less condemnatory of his sins, and endeavours to prove it to be less sweeping in its demands. How powerful is the argument that such men have no right to take the covenant of God into their mouths, seeing that its spirit does not regulate their lives!
Ver. 17. And castest my words behind thee. Thou castest away contemptuously, with disgust and detestation, as idols are cast out of a city; or as Moses indignantly dashed to the earth the tables of the law. Martin Geier.
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Ver. 17. My words: apparently the ten commandments, accustomed to be called the ten words, by which God is often said to have made his covenant with Israel. Hermann Venema.
Ver. 17.
1. The fatal sign.
1. Hating to be taught.
2. Hating what is taught.
2. What it indicates.
1. Pride.
2. Contempt of God.
3. Indifference to truth.
4. Atheism at heart.
5. Deadness of conscience.
3. What it leads to. See Ps 50:22.
Ver. 17-18. Rejection of salutary instruction leads sooner or later to open transgression. Instances, reasons, inferential warnings.
Psalms 50:18*
Ver. 17-18.
Rejection of salutary instruction leads sooner or later to open transgression. Instances, reasons, inferential warnings.
Psalms 50:19*
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unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On v18you agree with him
you agree with him
Possible meanings are 1) that they approve of the thief's actions. AT: "you approve or him" or 2) that they join the thief in their actions. AT: "you join him" (See: Idiom)
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You give your mouth to evil
God speaks of a person speaking evil things as if that person's mouth is a messenger whom the person sends to do evil things. AT: "You are always saying evil things" (See: Metaphor and Synecdoche)
your tongue expresses deceit
The word "tongue" represents the person who is speaking. AT: "you are always telling lies" (See: Synecdoche)
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son
These two phrases have the same meaning but use different words. God accuses them of speaking falsely against members of their own family. (See: Parallelism)
You sit and speak
To "sit and speak" against someone implies that this person deliberately thinks of bad things to say about someone. AT: "You always think of ways to speak" (See: Idiom and Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
Tyndale Open Study Notes2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0On v1750:17 my discipline . . . my words: The…
50:17 my discipline . . . my words: The wicked may observe rituals, but they reject more important matters such as justice, mercy, and faithfulness (cp. Matt 23:23-24).
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain On v17 17. Also thou hatest correction Here hypocrites are challenged…
17. Also thou hatest correction Here hypocrites are challenged with treacherous duplicity in denying, by their life and their works, that godliness which they have professed with the lip. Their contempt of God he proves from their want of reverential deference to his Word; subjection to the Word of God, and cordial submission to his precepts and instructions, being the surest test of religious principle. One way in which hypocrisy usually displays itself is, by the ingenious excuses it invents for evading the duty of obedience. The Psalmist points to this as the mainspring of their ungodliness, that they had cast the Word of God behind their back, while he insinuates that the principle from which all true worship flows is the obedience of faith. He adverts also to the cause of their perversity, which lies in the unwillingness of their corrupt heart to suffer the yoke of God. They have no hesitation in granting that whatever proceeds from the mouth of God is both true and right; this honor they are willing to concede to his Word; but in so far as it proposes to regulate their conduct, and restrain their sinful affections, they dislike and detest it. Our corruption, indisposing us to receive correction, exasperates us against the Word of God; nor is it possible that we can ever listen to it with true docility and meekness of mind, till we have been brought to give ourselves up to be ruled and disciplined by its precepts. The Psalmist next proceeds to specify some of those works of ungodliness, informing us that hypocrites, who were addicted to theft and adultery, mixed up and polluted the holy name of God with their wickedness. By adverting only to some species of vices, he would intimate, in general, that those who have despised correction, and hardened themselves against instruction, are prepared to launch into every excess which corrupt desire or evil example may suggests. He makes mention, first, of thefts; then of adulteries; and, thirdly, of calumnies or false reproaches. Most interpreters render תרף, tirets, to run, although others derive it from רצה, ratsah, rendering it to consent. Either translation agrees sufficiently with the scope of the Psalmist, and the preference may be left to the reader’s own choice. The charge here brought against hypocrites, that they put forth their mouth to evil, may include not merely slander, but all the different kinds of speaking which injure their neighbors, for it immediately follows, my tongue frameth deceit It is well known in what a variety of ways the lying and deceitful tongue may inflict injury and pain. When it is added, Thou sittest, etc., the allusion may be to one who sits for the passing of a formal judgment; as if it had been said, Thou defamest thy brethren under pretext of issuing a just sentence. Or there may be a reference to petty calumny; such as men maliciously indulge in, and in which they pass their time as they sit at ease in their houses. It seems more probable, however, that he refers to the higher crime of accusing the innocent and righteous in open court, and bringing false charges against them. Brethren, and the children of their mother, are mentioned, the more emphatically to express the cruelty of their calumnies, when they are represented as violating the ties of nature, and not even sparing the nearest relations.
John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.
Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv17, 18, 20 And to live according to my word.
And to live according to my word.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv17–20 Psa 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my…
Psa 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Ver. 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction] Or discipline, thou wilt not be brought to live strictly, to exercise godliness; thou refusest to be reformed, hatest to be healed. Bucer and Melancthon framed a form of reformation, with approbation of the peers and states; but the clergy of Cullen rejected it with slander, and said that they would rather live under the Great Turk than under a magistrate that should seek to settle such a reformation (Melch. Adam in Vit. Bucer).
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And castest my words behind thee] They are near in thy mouth, but far from thy reins, Jer 12:2; denying in thy life what thou professest with thy lips; Ethiopian like, being white in the mouth only; or as lilies, white, but unsavoury. The Jews at this day show very great respect to the law, which no man may touch but with the right hand, and with a kiss of reverence; no man may carry it behind him, but must lay it next to his heart, in his travel (Schichard). They are enjoined to take up any paper which they see lying on the ground; and the reason is lest haply the name of God be written in the paper, and ignorantly trodden underfoot. Christians, though free from such superstitious curiosity, yet, full of religious care, should observe every tittle in God’s word, lest they should trample upon any. And when corruption boileth (saith a reverend man) think the gospel of Christ, professed by you, lieth prostrate before you; and will ye trample upon that gospel? will ye tread underfoot the blood of the covenant, as if it were a profane thing? Heb 10:29.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv17–20 Seeing thy practice contradicts thy profession, and makes thee…
Seeing thy practice contradicts thy profession, and makes thee a notorious and impudent liar. Though with thy mouth thou showest much love (as is said of them, Eze 33:31) to my statutes and counsels, yet in truth thou hatest them, as they are curbs to thy beloved lusts, and instruments of thy just condemnation, and a manifest reproach to thy conversation. Or,
seeing thou hatest reproof, as this word is oft rendered. And this, above all other parts of God’s word, is most hateful to ungodly men, Pro 9:8; Pro 12:1; 15:10,12; Am 5:10. And therefore this is fitly alleged as an evidence of their wickedness.
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Castest my words behind thee; as men do things which they abhor or despise.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv17–20 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with…
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him,.... Or "didst run with him" (a); joined and agreed with him in the commission of the same things; which was literally true of the Scribes and Pharisees: they devoured widows' houses, and robbed them of their substance, under a pretence of long prayers; they consented to the deeds of Barabbas, a robber, when they preferred him to Jesus Christ; and they joined with the thieves on the cross in reviling him: and, in a spiritual sense, they stole away the word of the Lord, every man from his neighbour; took away the key of knowledge from the people, and put false glosses upon the sacred writings;
and hast been a partaker with adulterers; these teachers of the law were guilty both of theft and adultery, Rom 2:21; they are called by our Lord an adulterous generation, Mat 12:39; and they were so in a literal sense; see Joh 8:4; and in a figurative one, adulterating the word of God, and handling it deceitfully.
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(a) , Sept. "currebas cum eo", V. L. sic Eth. Syr. Targum, so Vatablus, Musculus, Piscator, Ainsworth.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv17–18 Verse 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction] All these rejected…
Verse 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction] All these rejected the counsel of God against themselves; and refused to receive the instructions of Christ.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv17–18 Psa 50:17. Seeing thou hatest instruction — Seeing thy…
Psa 50:17. Seeing thou hatest instruction — Seeing thy practice contradicts thy profession, and makes thee a notorious and impudent liar. For though with thy mouth thou showest much love to my statutes and counsels, yet, in truth, thou hatest them, as they oppose and hinder the gratification of thy beloved lusts, and are the instruments of thy just condemnation, and a manifest reproach to thy conduct. Or, seeing thou hatest reproof as מוסר, musar, is often rendered. And this, above all other parts of God’s word, is most hateful to ungodly men; and, therefore, this is fitly alleged as an evidence of their wickedness. And castest my words behind thee — As men do things which they abhor and despise.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv17–20 Seeing thou hatest instruction - That is, He is…
Seeing thou hatest instruction - That is, He is unwilling himself to be taught. He will not learn the true nature of religion, and yet he presumes to instruct others. Compare the notes at Rom 2:21.
And castest my words behind thee - He treated them with contempt, or as unworthy of attention. He did not regard them as worthy of being “retained,” but threw them contemptuously away.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv17–20 17. Instruction… words—The first refers to discipline, the last…
17. Instruction… words—The first refers to discipline, the last to verbal revelation; the one is designed to nourish and enlighten, the other to govern, the man. Compare “nurture and admonition [instruction and discipline] of the Lord,” Eph_6:4. Both are treated with hatred and contempt by the class now addressed.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv17–20 17. instruction] Or, correction; the whole discipline of moral…
17. instruction] Or, correction; the whole discipline of moral education; a word occurring here only in the Psalter, but common in Proverbs, where it is the mark of the fool and the scorner to despise instruction. Cp. Deu_8:5; Deu_11:2.
and castest &c.] Lit., and hast cast, flung them away out of sight and got rid of them. Contrast David’s behaviour, Psa_18:22. My words includes all God’s commandments, but points especially to the ‘ten words’ of the Decalogue (Deu_4:13; cp. Exo_20:1).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv18–20 (18) Thou consentedst with him—i.e., hast pleasure in. (Comp.…
(18) Thou consentedst with him—i.e., hast pleasure in. (Comp. Job_34:9.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv17–20 Seeing thou hatest instruction. (comp. Pro_1:25, Pro_1:29) God, by…
Seeing thou hatest instruction. (comp. Pro_1:25, Pro_1:29) God, by his Law, teaches men their duties; but many men "hate" to be instructed. And castest my words behind thee. (comp. 1Ki_14:9 Neh_9:26) They proceed from "inward alienation" to "open rejection" of the moral law.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain On vv17–20 Ver. 17. Seeing thou hatest instruction. Profane professors are…
Ver. 17. 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. Many boasters of the law did this practically; and in these last days there are pickers and choosers of God's words who cannot endure the practical part of Scripture; they are disgusted at duty, they abhor responsibility, they disembowel texts of their plain meanings, they wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction. It is an ill sign when a man dares not look a Scripture in the face, and an evidence of brazen impudence when he tries to make it mean something less condemnatory of his sins, and endeavours to prove it to be less sweeping in its demands. How powerful is the argument that such men have no right to take the covenant of God into their mouths, seeing that its spirit does not regulate their lives!
Ver. 17. And castest my words behind thee. Thou castest away contemptuously, with disgust and detestation, as idols are cast out of a city; or as Moses indignantly dashed to the earth the tables of the law. Martin Geier.
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Ver. 17. My words: apparently the ten commandments, accustomed to be called the ten words, by which God is often said to have made his covenant with Israel. Hermann Venema.
Ver. 17.
1. The fatal sign.
1. Hating to be taught.
2. Hating what is taught.
2. What it indicates.
1. Pride.
2. Contempt of God.
3. Indifference to truth.
4. Atheism at heart.
5. Deadness of conscience.
3. What it leads to. See Ps 50:22.
Ver. 17-18. Rejection of salutary instruction leads sooner or later to open transgression. Instances, reasons, inferential warnings.
Psalms 50:18*
Ver. 17-18.
Rejection of salutary instruction leads sooner or later to open transgression. Instances, reasons, inferential warnings.
Psalms 50:19*
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v18 you agree with him
you agree with him
Possible meanings are 1) that they approve of the thief's actions. AT: "you approve or him" or 2) that they join the thief in their actions. AT: "you join him" (See: Idiom)
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You give your mouth to evil
God speaks of a person speaking evil things as if that person's mouth is a messenger whom the person sends to do evil things. AT: "You are always saying evil things" (See: Metaphor and Synecdoche)
your tongue expresses deceit
The word "tongue" represents the person who is speaking. AT: "you are always telling lies" (See: Synecdoche)
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son
These two phrases have the same meaning but use different words. God accuses them of speaking falsely against members of their own family. (See: Parallelism)
You sit and speak
To "sit and speak" against someone implies that this person deliberately thinks of bad things to say about someone. AT: "You always think of ways to speak" (See: Idiom and Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
translationWords
adultery
tongue
deceive
brother
slander
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v17 50:17 my discipline . . . my words: The…
50:17 my discipline . . . my words: The wicked may observe rituals, but they reject more important matters such as justice, mercy, and faithfulness (cp. Matt 23:23-24).
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