Proverbs 1:32
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them.The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
In Context
31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way,and be filled with their own schemes.
33But whoever listens to me will dwell securely,and will be at ease, without fear of harm."
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:17Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.
Psalms 69:22Let their table before them become a snare.May it become a retribution and a trap.
Proverbs 2:18for her house leads down to death,her paths to the dead.
Proverbs 9:18But he doesn't know that the dead are there,that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Proverbs 14:16A wise man fears, and shuns evil,but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.
Jeremiah 48:11'Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
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 →