Proverbs 1:22
“Little ones, how long will you choose to be childish, and how long will the foolish desire what is harmful to themselves, and how long will the imprudent hate knowledge?
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In Context
23Be converted by my correction. Lo, I will offer my spirit to you, and I will reveal my words to you.
Cross References
Exodus 10:3Therefore, Moses and Aaron entered to Pharaoh, and they said to him: “Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long will you be unwilling to be subject to me? Release my people to sacrifice to me.
Numbers 14:27“How long will this very wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel.
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence.
Proverbs 1:4so as to give discernment to little ones, knowledge and understanding to adolescents.
Proverbs 1:29For they held hatred for discipline, and they would not accept the fear of the Lord;
Proverbs 5:12“Why have I detested discipline, and why has my heart not been quieted by correction?
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 →