Proverbs 1:32
For the backsliding of the simple shall kill them, and the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
In Context
31Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
33But he who hearkens to me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
Psalms 69:22Let their table before them become a snare, and when they are in peace, a trap, and for a stumbling block, and for a retribution to them (LXX/NT).
Proverbs 2:18(for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead;
Proverbs 9:18But he knows not that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Proverbs 14:16A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident.
Jeremiah 48:11Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity. Therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
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 →