Proverbs 1:32
For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.
Bible in Basic English
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
33But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:17A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.
Psalms 69:22\69:21\They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.
Proverbs 2:18For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
Proverbs 9:18But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
Proverbs 14:16The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.
Jeremiah 48:11From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.
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 →