Proverbs 1:25
You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
In Context
24Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;
26So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:45And you came back, weeping before the Lord; but the Lord gave no attention to your cries and did not give ear to you.
2 Chronicles 33:10And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.
Psalms 81:11\81:10\I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.
Proverbs 1:30They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
Proverbs 12:1A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.
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 →