Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of the LORD.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
In Context
30They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
Cross References
Job 21:14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Psalms 50:17since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
Proverbs 5:12and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.
Isaiah 27:11When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Luke 10:42but one thing is needed. Miriam has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
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 →