Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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Exodus 10:3And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Eternal, the God of the Hebrews, How long yet wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
Numbers 14:27How long [shall indulgence be given] to this evil congregation, that murmur against me? the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me, have I heard.
Psalms 1:1BOOK FIRST: Happy is the man who walketh not in the council of the wicked, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the seat of scorners;
Proverbs 1:4To give to the simple prudence, to the youth knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 1:29For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose;
Proverbs 5:12And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected 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 →