Proverbs 1:29
Because that they have hated knowledge, || And have not chosen the fear of YHWH.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
In Context
28Then they call me, and I do not answer, || They seek me earnestly, and do not find me.
30They have not consented to my counsel, || They have despised all my reproof,
Cross References
Job 21:14And they say to God, Turn aside from us, || And the knowledge of Your ways || We have not desired.
Psalms 50:17Indeed, you have hated instruction, || And cast My words behind you.
Proverbs 5:12And have said, “How I have hated instruction, || And my heart has despised reproof,
Isaiah 27:11In the withering of its branch it is broken off, || Women are coming in [and] setting it on fire, || For it [is] not a people of understanding, || Therefore its Maker does not pity it, || And its Former does not favor it.
Luke 10:42but of one thing there is need, and Mary chose the good part; that will not be taken away from her.”
Acts 7:51You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers—also you;
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 →