Proverbs 1:31
Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
In Context
30They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
Cross References
Job 4:8According as I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.
Isaiah 3:10Say ye of the righteous, that [it is] well, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Jeremiah 6:19Hear, O earth: Behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened to my words. And as for my law, they have rejected it.
Ezekiel 22:31Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way upon their heads, says lord LORD.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:21-33
Wisdom's Exhortations; Doom of Obdurate Sinners. 20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have… Read the whole commentary →