Proverbs 1:28
Wisdom also says, “When foolish people call to me to help them, I will not answer them. They will search for me diligently/everywhere, but they will not find me.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
29They refused to know what things are right, and they decided not to revere Yahweh.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:45So your ancestors went back to Kadesh-Barnea and cried out to request Yahweh to help them, but he did not heed them. He did not pay any attention to them [DOU].
Job 27:9When they experience troubles, ◄will God hear them call out to him for help?/God certainly will not hear them call out to him for help.► [RHQ]
Psalms 18:41They called out for someone to help them, but no one saved them.
Psalms 78:34When God caused some of them to die, the others turned to God; they repented and earnestly asked God to save them.
Isaiah 1:15So, when you lift up your hands when you pray to me, I will not even look at you. Even if you pray to me very frequently, I will not listen to you, because it is as though your hands are covered with the blood of people whom you have killed.
Jeremiah 14:12When they ◄fast/abstain from food in order to honor me►, I will not pay any attention. When they bring to me their offerings of animals to be completely burned on the altar and their offerings of grain, I will not accept them. Instead, I will get rid of them by wars, by famines, and by diseases.”
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 →