Proverbs 1:31
And they eat of the fruit of their way, || And they are filled from their own counsels.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
In Context
30They have not consented to my counsel, || They have despised all my reproof,
32For the turning of the simple slays them, || And the security of the foolish destroys them.
Cross References
Job 4:8As I have seen—plowers of iniquity, || And sowers of misery, reap it!
Proverbs 14:14The backslider in heart is filled from his ways, || And a good man—from his fruits.
Isaiah 3:10Say to the righteous that [it is] good, || Because they eat the fruit of their doings.
Jeremiah 6:19Hear, O earth, behold, I am bringing evil on this people, || The fruit of their plans, || For they gave no attention to My words, || And My law—they kick against it.
Ezekiel 22:31And I pour out My indignation on them, || I have consumed them by [the] fire of My wrath, || I have put their way on their own head, || A declaration of Lord YHWH!”
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 →