Proverbs 1:28
then you'll call out to me for help, but I won't answer; you'll search hard for me, but won't find me.
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29Why?—because they hated knowledge, and they didn't choose to respect the Lord.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:45You came back to camp and wept before the Lord, but he refused to listen to what you said or to pay attention to you.
Job 27:9When times of trouble come to them, will God hear their cry for help?
Psalms 18:41They cried out for help, but no one came to rescue them. They even called out to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
Psalms 78:34When he began killing them, the rest came back to God in repentance, praying to him.
Isaiah 1:15When you hold up your hands to me in prayer, I'll look away. Even though you pray many prayers, I won't pay attention to them, because your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 14:12Even if they fast, I won't listen to their cry. Even though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I won't accept them. On the contrary I will wipe them out by sword and famine and plague.
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 →