Proverbs 1:30
Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
In Context
29Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,
31Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:16And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the king's counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet departing, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou hast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.
Proverbs 1:25You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
Jeremiah 8:9The wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.
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 →