Proverbs 1:31
Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
In Context
30Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
32The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Cross References
Job 4:8On the contrary I have seen those who work iniquity, and sow sorrows, and reap them,
Proverbs 14:14A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.
Isaiah 3:10Say to the just man that it is well, for he shall eat the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 6:19Hear, O earth: Behold I will bring evils upon this people, the fruits of their own thoughts: because they have not heard my words, and they have cast away my law.
Ezekiel 22:31And I poured out my indignation upon them, in the fire of my wrath I consumed them: I have rendered their way upon their own head, saith the Lord God.
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 →