Proverbs 1:29
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
In Context
30They would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof.
Cross References
Job 21:14Yet they said unto God: 'Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.
Psalms 50:17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest My words behind thee.
Proverbs 5:12And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Isaiah 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore He that made them will not have compassion upon them, and He that formed them will not be gracious unto them.
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 →