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Psalm 119:51

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

49Remember your word to your servant, because you gave me hope.
50This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.
51The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.
52I remember your ordinances of old, LORD, and have comforted myself.
53Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.
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Mockery from the arrogant puts pressure on obedience, yet the speaker’s refusal to swerve leaves God’s law in charge even while the ridicule continues.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 44:18Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,Both speakers describe faithfulness as staying on God’s path without turning back or straying.
Job 23:11My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.Job’s refusal to turn away from God’s way echoes the psalm’s refusal to swerve from God’s law.
Psalm 123:4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.Both passages name the burden of scoffing from the proud, describing contempt that has become severe.
Jeremiah 20:7LORD, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.Both speakers address God while enduring mockery, with Jeremiah describing himself as a laughingstock all day.
Proverbs 4:5Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.Both use the language of refusing to deviate, Psalm 119 concerning God’s law and Proverbs concerning words of wisdom.
Psalm 119:69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.Both verses pair mistreatment by the proud with a stated resolve to keep God’s commands.
Psalm 119:78Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.Both verses describe harm from the proud while the speaker remains intent on God’s instruction.
Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.Both texts describe scoffing directed at someone; Luke identifies the scoffers as Pharisees who loved money.
Hebrews 12:1–3Therefore let’s 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’s run …Both use images of movement to describe perseverance: refusing to swerve and continuing to run the race.
Acts 20:23–24except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.The shared thread is hardship faced by God’s servants; Acts names coming bonds and afflictions rather than present mockery.
Isaiah 38:3and said, “Remember now, LORD, 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.” Then …Both speakers tell God of their faithfulness while facing distress, expressed through mockery in the psalm and tears in Isaiah.
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Encouragement

The speaker makes no claim that mockery has stopped or ceased to hurt. Obedience can continue under that pressure; the arrogant do not determine the worth of God’s law.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).