Proverbs 1:30
They would not accept my advice, and they did not pay attention when I tried to correct them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
In Context
29They refused to know what things are right, and they decided not to revere Yahweh.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:16While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “We certainly did not appoint you to be one of my advisors. So stop talking! If you say anything more, I will tell my soldiers to kill you!” So the prophet said, “I know that God has determined to get rid of you, because you have begun to worship idols, and have not heeded my advice.” Then the prophet said nothing more.
Psalms 119:111◄Your requirements/What you have instructed us to do► are my possession forever; because of them [PRS], I am joyful.
Proverbs 1:25I tried to advise you, but you refused to listen to me. I tried to correct you, but you rejected what I told you.
Jeremiah 8:9Those teachers, who think that [IRO] they are wise, will be ashamed/disgraced and dismayed when they are taken to other countries by their enemies because they sinned by rejecting what I told them. Truly, they were not [RHQ] very wise to do that!
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 →