Proverbs 1:30
They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
In Context
29Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
31And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:16And it cometh to pass, in his speaking unto him, that he saith to him, 'For a counsellor to the king have we appointed thee? cease for thee; why do they smite thee?' And the prophet ceaseth, and saith, 'I have known that God hath counselled to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.'
Psalms 119:111I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart [are] they.
Proverbs 1:25And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
Jeremiah 8:9Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what — have they?
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 →