Proverbs 1:25
You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
In Context
24Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
26I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:45And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains coming out, and meeting you, chased you, as bees do: and made slaughter of you from Seir as far as Horma.
2 Chronicles 33:10And the Lord spoke to him, and to his people, and they would not hearken.
Psalms 81:11For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Proverbs 1:30Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
Proverbs 12:1He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is foolish.
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 →