Proverbs 1:22
O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
23Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
Cross References
Exodus 10:3Therefore Moses and Aaron went in to Pharao, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews: How long refusest thou to submit to me? let my people go, to sacrifice to me.
Numbers 14:27How long doth this wicked multitude murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence.
Proverbs 1:4To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 1:29Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,
Proverbs 5:12Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof,
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 →