Proverbs 1:22
“How long will you stupid people love stupidity? How long will scornful people enjoy their mocking? How long will fools hate knowledge?
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In Context
21She cries out at busy corners; she explains her message at the town gates:
Cross References
Exodus 10:3Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long are you going to refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they can worship me.
Numbers 14:27“How much longer are these wicked people going to criticize me? I've heard what they're saying, making complaints against me.
Psalms 1:1Happy are those who don't follow the advice of the wicked. They refuse to adopt the ways of sinful people, and they don't make fun of others.
Proverbs 1:4They give discernment to the immature, knowledge and discretion to the young.
Proverbs 1:29Why?—because they hated knowledge, and they didn't choose to respect the Lord.
Proverbs 5:12You'll say, “How I used to hate discipline, and my mind rebelled against being corrected!
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 →