Proverbs 1:30
They have not consented to my counsel, || They have despised all my reproof,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
In Context
29Because that they have hated knowledge, || And have not chosen the fear of YHWH.
31And they eat of the fruit of their way, || And they are filled from their own counsels.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:16And it comes to pass, in his speaking to him, that he says to him, “Have we appointed you for a counselor to the king? For you [must] cease; why do they strike you?” And the prophet ceases and says, “I have known that God has counseled to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
Psalms 119:111I have inherited Your testimonies for all time, || For they [are] the joy of my heart.
Proverbs 1:25And you slight all my counsel, || And you have not desired my reproof.
Jeremiah 8:9The wise have been ashamed, || They have been frightened, and are captured, || Behold, they kicked against a word of YHWH, || And what wisdom do they have?
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 →