You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones,
who wander from your commandments.
Psalm 119:21 ESV
The LORD rebukes the insolent, accursed ones. The fact that they are accursed implies that this rebuke is not merely corrective. God rebukes and disciplines His people as an earthly father does with his children. Yet His rebukes lead to life. They are for the purpose of repentance, calling us to flee sin and return to Him. Those who are accursed, however, only receive the judgment and wrath of God without this mercy.
Yet the curses of God are never without merit. Here the psalmist tells us that God rebukes the insolent or, as other translations read, the proud. In their insolence, they wander from the commandments of God, choosing to follow their own understanding instead. They are insolent because they believe themselves to be wiser than wisdom’s very Source. They are accursed, therefore, because they wander from the living water to drink from polluted streams. Like Pharaoh, they refuse to let go of their sin, regardless of the plagues that it brings upon them. Like Absalom, the object of their pride will be the very noose by which they are hung, the instrument of their inevitable destruction.
All of this is to say that God is just in cursing the insolent. He has given to us His Word and His commandments. The wise prostrate themselves in the dust and cling to His Scriptures for life. They submit to the discipline and instruction of the LORD, seeking to be conformed evermore into the image of Christ. The insolent, however, are fools who despise instruction. Their own will shall be done, even though the end is hell. Let us, therefore, be diligent not to wander from the LORD’s commandments and quick to repent whenever we do.
B. C. Newton 
Hi,
Psalmist says,’ Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed. ‘(Psalms 119 :21)
This is one way of explanation, about the proud person ,with other consistent verses.
ln (Psalms 31 :23) he says : God plentifully rewardeth
the proud doer.’
In (Psalms 138 : 6) he says:’ God knoweth the proud afar off.’
And,
(James 4:6) states :’God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
How to recognize a proud
person_:
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‘ A proud person is desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. ‘
( Galatians 5 : 26 )
‘He is not willing to associate with people of low position.(Rom.12:16)
He thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing.’ ( Galatians 6 : 3 )
He has selfish ambition or vain conceit.He does not value others above himsel. ( Phi. 2:3)
He strifes. (Proverbs 16:5)
He boasts of his wisdom or of his strength or of his riches. (Jeremiah 9:23)
(Proverbs 21:24) says:Proud & haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.’
These are the biblical examples :.
!) Moab
(Isaiah 16:6) states :’ We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness,& his pride & his wrath.’
!!) Hezekiah
(2 Chronicles 32:36) says: “Then Hezekiah repented
of the pride of his heart. ‘
!!!) King Nebuchadnezzar:
(Daniel 4:30) says :’ The king said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of
my power & for the honour of my majesty ?’
!v) King Uzziah:
(2 Chronicles 26:16)says: When Uzziah was strong,he grew proud, to his destruction.’
v) King Saul:
(1 Samuel 15:11) says :God said to Samuel, “It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me & hath not performed my commandments.’
v!) Satan:
(Isaiah 14:12-15) states :“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning ! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said
in your heart, ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of the congreg ation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High”.
The other verses state :
‘Pride goeth before destruction ,& an haughty spirit before a fall.’(Proverbs 16:18)
‘Where there is pride,there is contention.’( Proverbs 13:10)
‘Blessed is the man who respecteth not the proud. ‘
( Psalms 40 : 4 )
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