Proverbs 1:28
For it shall be that when you⌃ call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find me.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
29For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:45And you⌃ sat down and wept before the Lord our God, and the Lord listened not to your voice, neither did he take heed to you.
Job 27:9Will God hear his prayer? or, when distress has come upon him,
Isaiah 1:15When you⌃ stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and though you⌃ make many supplications, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 14:12for though they fast, I will not hear their supplication; and though they offer whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, I will take no pleasure in them: for I will consume them with sword, and with famine, and with pestilence.
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 →