The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
Parallel translations
- KJV The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
- BSB The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.
- NKJV The proud have me in great derision, Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.
- NASB The arrogant utterly deride me, Yet I do not turn aside from Your Law.
- NLT The proud hold me in utter contempt, but I do not turn away from your instructions.
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- Job 23:11My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
- Jer 20:7Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all day. Every one mocks me.
- Ps 119:157Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.
- Ps 44:18Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,
- Luke 23:35The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
- Acts 20:23–24except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
- Heb 12:1–3Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
- Ps 119:69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
- Ps 119:21You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.
- Ps 119:31I cling to your statutes, Yahweh. Don’t let me be disappointed.
- Ps 123:3–4Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
- Isa 38:3and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Isa 42:4He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he has set justice in the earth, and the islands will wait for his law.”
- Luke 16:14–15The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
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