Proverbs 1:22
Wisdom says, “How long will you stupid people continue to enjoy doing foolish things [RHQ]? How long will you people who ridicule God enjoy doing that [RHQ]? How long will you foolish people refuse to know what things are right [RHQ]?
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
21Wisdom calls out in noisy places, and at the entrances to cities.
Cross References
Exodus 10:3So Aaron and Moses/I went into the king’s palace and said to him, “Yahweh God, whom we Hebrews worship, says this: ‘How long will you stubbornly refuse to do what I tell you [MTY]? Let my people go, in order that they may worship me in the desert
Numbers 14:27“How long will the wicked people of this nation keep complaining about me [RHQ]? I have heard everything that they have grumbled/complained against me.
Psalms 1:1God is pleased with those who do not do what [MET] wicked people advise them to do, and who do not imitate the behavior of [MET] sinful people, and who do not join in with people who ◄ridicule/sneer at► God.
Proverbs 1:4They will show people who do not yet know much how to do things that are smart. They will show young people how to become wise and how to make good plans/decisions.
Proverbs 1:29They refused to know what things are right, and they decided not to revere Yahweh.
Proverbs 5:12Then you will say, “I hated it when people tried to correct me. I despised people when they reproved/rebuked me.
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 →