Proverbs 1:31
So they will endure what will result [MET, DOU] from the evil way they have lived/behaved and the evil things they have planned to do.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
In Context
30They would not accept my advice, and they did not pay attention when I tried to correct them.
32Those who turn away from me are stupid/foolish; they will die because of doing that.
Cross References
Job 4:8What I have experienced is this: Just as [MET] farmers who plant bad seeds do not harvest good crops, just as those who start trouble for others, later bring trouble on themselves.
Proverbs 14:14Those who stubbornly continue to do what is wrong will get what they deserve, and those who continually do what is good will also get what they deserve.
Isaiah 3:10Yahweh told me to tell the righteous people that good things will happen to them; they will enjoy the blessings that they will receive for their good deeds.
Jeremiah 6:19Listen, all of you! I am going to cause the Israeli people to experience disasters. That is what will happen to them because they have refused to listen to what I told them. They have refused to obey my laws.
Ezekiel 22:31So because I am very angry with them, I will severely punish them [MTY] for all the wicked things that they have done. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh the Lord, have said it.”
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 →