Proverbs 1:29
Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
In Context
30They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.
Cross References
Job 21:14They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
Psalms 50:17Seeing thou hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee?
Proverbs 5:12And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!
Isaiah 27:11When the boughes of it are drie, they shalbe broken: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of none vnderstading: therefore hee that made them, shall not haue compassion of them, and he that formed them, shall haue no mercie on them.
Luke 10:42But one thing is needefull, Marie hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Acts 7:51Ye stiffenecked and of vncircumcised heartes and eares, ye haue alwayes resisted the holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you.
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 →