Proverbs 1:29
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
In Context
28then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
30they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:
Cross References
Job 21:14And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
Psalms 50:17Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?
Proverbs 5:12and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
Isaiah 27:11When its branches are withered they shall be broken off; women shall come [and] set them on fire. For it is a people of no intelligence; therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he who formed them will shew them no favour.
Luke 10:42but there is need of one, and Mary has chosen the good part, the which shall not be taken from her.
Acts 7:51O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also.
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 →