Psalm 119:51 {118:51}
Good News Translation
The proud are always scornful of me, but I have not departed from your law.

New Revised Standard Version
The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn away from your law.

Contemporary English Version
Conceited people sneer at me, but I obey your Law.

New American Bible
Though the arrogant utterly scorn me, I do not turn from your law.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law.

proud

Psalm 119:21,69 Thou hast rebuked the proud: they are cursed who decline from thy commandments. . . .

Psalm 123:3,4 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for we are greatly filled with contempt. . . .

Jeremiah 20:7 Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me.

Luke 16:14,15 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. . . .

Luke 23:35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved others: let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God.

yet have

Psalm 119:31,157 I have stuck to thy testimonies, O Lord: put me not to shame. . . .

Psalm 44:18 All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.

Job 23:11 My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.

Isaiah 38:3 And said: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember how I have walked before thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Ezechias wept with great weeping.

Isaiah 42:4 He shall not be sad, nor troublesome, till he set judgment in the earth, and the islands shall wait for his law.

Acts 20:23,24 Save that the Holy Ghost in every city witnesseth to me, saying: That bands and afflictions wait for me at Jerusalem. . . .

Hebrews 12:1-3 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us: . . .

Context
Your Word is a Lamp to My Feet
50This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath enlivened me. 51The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law.52I remembered, O Lord, thy judgments of old: and I was comforted.…
Cross References
Job 23:11
My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.

Job 30:1
But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

Psalm 44:18
All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.

Psalm 119:157
Many are they that persecute me and afflict me; but I have not declined from thy testimonies.

Jeremiah 20:7
Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me.

Psalm 119:50
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