Proverbs 1:29
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
In Context
28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
30They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
Cross References
Job 21:14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Psalms 50:17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
Isaiah 27:11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
Luke 10:42But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
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 →