Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

while you yourself hate discipline, and cast my words behind you?

New American Standard Bible

“For you hate discipline,
And you cast My words behind you.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

You hate instruction
and turn your back on My words.

International Standard Version

You hate instruction and toss my words behind you.

A Conservative Version

since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee?

American Standard Version

Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?

Amplified


“For you hate instruction and discipline
And cast My words behind you [discarding them].

Darby Translation

Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?

Julia Smith Translation

And thou hatedst instruction, and thou wilt cast my words behind thee.

King James 2000

Seeing you hate instruction, and cast my words behind you.

Modern King James verseion

Yea, you hate to be taught, and you toss My Words behind you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

whereas thou hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee?

NET Bible

For you hate instruction and reject my words.

New Heart English Bible

seeing you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

The Emphasized Bible

Seeing that, thou, hast hated correction, And hast cast my words behind thee;

Webster

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

World English Bible

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Youngs Literal Translation

Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

Verse Info

Context Readings

God As Judge

16 But to the wicked God says, "What [right] have you to recite my statutes and {mention my covenant with your mouth}, 17 while you yourself hate discipline, and cast my words behind you? 18 When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association [is] with adulterers.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

"But they rebelled and were rebellious against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them to turn back to you, and they did great blasphemies.

Proverbs 12:1

He who loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates rebuke [is] stupid.

1 Kings 14:9

But you did more evil than all who were before you. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten idols to provoke me, but me you have {completely disregarded}.

Proverbs 1:7

Fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge; wisdom and instruction, fools despise.

Proverbs 1:28-29

then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me.

Proverbs 5:12-13

and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!"

Proverbs 8:36

But he who misses me injures himself. All those who hate me love death."

Isaiah 5:23

Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove [the] justice of [the] innocent from him.

Jeremiah 8:9

[The] wise will be put to shame, they will be dismayed, and they will get taken. Look, they have rejected the word of Yahweh, and what [is] wisdom to them?

Jeremiah 18:12

But they will say, '[It is] hopeless, for we will go after our [own] plans, and each one of us will act [according to] the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

Jeremiah 36:23-32

{And then}, as Jehudi read three or four columns, he would cut it up in pieces with the knife of the scribe, and he would throw [it] into the fire that [was] in the fire-pot until the whole of the scroll [was] consumed in the fire that was in the fire-pot.

John 3:20

For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not see fit {to recognize God}, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things [that are] not proper,

Romans 2:21-23

Therefore, the one who teaches someone else, do you not teach yourself? The one who preaches not to steal, do you steal?

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and with every unrighteous deception against those who are perishing, in place of which they did not accept the love of the truth, so that they would be saved.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but in accordance with their own desires, they will accumulate for themselves teachers, {because they have an insatiable curiosity},

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