Proverbs 1:29

For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose;

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In The King James Version

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

In Context

28Then will they call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me;

30[That] they would not attend to my counsel: [that] they rejected all my admonition.

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Cross References

Job 21:14And yet they say unto God, “Depart from us; and the knowledge of thy ways we desire not.

Psalms 50:17And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

Proverbs 5:12And thou sayest, How have I hated correction, and how hath my heart rejected reproof;

Isaiah 27:11When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off; women will come and set them on fire; for it is not a people of understanding; therefore he that made it will not have mercy on it, and he that formed it will show it no favor.

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 →

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