Proverbs 1:22
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
Berean Standard Bible
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In Context
21in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
Cross References
Exodus 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
Numbers 14:27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
Proverbs 1:4To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,
Proverbs 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised 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 →