Psalms 50:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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, Ezekiel 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, Proverbs 9:8 Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 15:10,12 Am 5:10. And therefore this is fitly alleged as an evidence of their wickedness. Castest my words behind thee; as men do things which they abhor or despise.

Psalms 50:17

17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.