Proverbs 1:29
Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
In Context
28Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.
30They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
Cross References
Job 21:14And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
Psalms 50:17Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.
Proverbs 5:12And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
Isaiah 27:11In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it [is] not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.
Luke 10:42but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'
Acts 7:51'Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers — also ye;
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 →