Proverbs 1:32
The loathing of the little ones shall destroy them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall perish them.
Catholic Public Domain 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
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:17Cursed shall be your barn, and cursed your storehouses.
Proverbs 2:18and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell.
Proverbs 9:18And he did not know that giants are there, and that her companions are in the depths of Hell.
Proverbs 14:16The wise fear, and so turn away from evil. The foolish leap ahead with confidence.
Jeremiah 48:11Moab has been fertile from his youth, and he has rested amid his brood. And he has not been transferred from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into the transmigration. Therefore, his taste has remained with him, and his scent has 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 →