Num 15:30, 22:32, Deu 29:19, Job 31:7, Psa 81:12, Jer 7:24, 23:17 | TSK | STEP | doeth ought. presumptuously. Heb. with an high hand.That is, bold, daring, deliberate acts of transgression against the fullest evidence, and in despite of the Divine authority. Such conduct "reproacheth the Lord," as if his commands were needless, unreasonable, and inimical to the happiness of man; his favour were not desirable, or his wrath not to be feared: in short, as if it were more advantageous to rebel against him than to serve him. Such acts admitted of no atonement: the person was condemned to bear his own iniquity, and to be cut off. reproacheth.

‏ Numbers 15:30

doeth ought.

9:13; 14:44; Ge 17:14; Ex 21:14; Le 20:3,6,10; De 1:43; 17:12

De 29:19,20; Ps 19:13; Mt 12:32; Heb 10:26,29; 2Pe 2:10

presumptuously. Heb. with an high hand.That is, bold, daring, deliberate acts of transgression against the fullest evidence, and in despite of the Divine authority. Such conduct "reproacheth the Lord," as if his commands were needless, unreasonable, and inimical to the happiness of man; his favour were not desirable, or his wrath not to be feared: in short, as if it were more advantageous to rebel against him than to serve him. Such acts admitted of no atonement: the person was condemned to bear his own iniquity, and to be cut off.

reproacheth.

Ps 69:9; 74:18,22; 79:12; 89:51; Pr 14:31; Isa 37:23,24

‏ Numbers 22:32

Wherefore.

28; De 25:4; Ps 36:6; 145:9; 147:9; Jon 4:11

withstand thee. Heb. be an adversary unto thee.

thy way.

De 23:4; Pr 28:6; Mic 6:5; Ac 13:10; 2Pe 2:14,15

before me.

20,22,35; Ex 3:2-6; Pr 14:2; 28:18

‏ Deuteronomy 29:19

this curse.

12; Ge 2:17

that he bless.

17:2; Nu 15:30,39; Ps 10:4-6,11; 49:18; 94:6,7; Pr 29:1

Jer 5:12,13; 7:3-11; 28:15-17; 44:16,17,27; Eze 13:16,22; Eph 5:6

though I walk.

Nu 15:30; Ec 11:9; Ro 1:21; 2Co 10:5; Eph 4:17

imagination. or, stubborness.

Jer 3:17; 7:24; *margins

to add.A very forcible metaphor, denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor, without regard to the consequences. Some render, "to add thirst to drunkenness;" and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions, which hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses.

drunkenness to thirst. Heb. the drunken to the thirsty.