Proverbs 1:29
For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord:
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
In Context
30neither would they attend to my counsels, but derided my reproofs.
Cross References
Job 21:14Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know your ways.
Psalms 50:17Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: a broken and humbled heart God will not despise. 1
Proverbs 5:12and you shall say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart avoided reproofs!
Isaiah 27:11And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of the grass being parched. Come hither, you⌃ women that come + 27:11 See Heb. from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have no pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy upon them.
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 →