Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another - great as is the sin of Israel, it is hopeless to reprove them.
For thy people are as they that strive with the priest - for their presumptuous guilt is as great as that of one who refuses to obey the priest when giving judgment in the name of Yahweh, and who therefore is to be put to death (Deuteronomy 17:12). They rush on their own destruction as willfully as such a one. Yahweh had taken the "controversy х riyb (H7379)] with the inhabitants of the land" into His own hands: therefore man need not take up the controversy (the same Hebrew word, yaareeb (H7378)) with his fellow-man. Compare Proverbs 9:7-8, "Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee;" Compare Proverbs 23:9.
Thy people - the ten tribes of Israel; distinct from Judah (Hosea 4:1).