Proverbs 1:20-33
1599 Geneva Bible
20 ¶ [a]Wisdom crieth without: she uttereth her voice in the [b]streets.
21 She calleth in the high street, among the prease in the enterings of the gates, and uttereth her words in the city, saying,
22 O ye [c]foolish, how long will ye love foolishness? and the scornful take their pleasure in scorning? and the fools hate knowledge?
23 (Turn you at my correction: lo, I will pour out my mind unto you, and make you understand my words.)
24 Because I have called, and ye refused: I have stretched out mine hand, and none would regard.
25 But ye have despised all my counsel, and would none of my correction,
26 I will also [d]laugh at your destruction, and mock when your fear cometh.
27 When [e]your fear cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirlwind: when affliction and anguish shall come upon you,
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer: they shall seek me early, but they shall not [f]find me,
29 Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
30 They would none of my counsel, but [g]despised all my correction.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the [h]fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 For [i]ease slayeth the foolish, and the prosperity of fools destroyeth them.
33 But he that obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from fear of evil.
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- Proverbs 1:20 This wisdom is the eternal word of God.
- Proverbs 1:20 So that none can pretend ignorance.
- Proverbs 1:22 Wisdom reproveth three kinds of men: the foolish or simple which err of ignorance, and the mockers that cannot suffer to be taught, and the fools which are drowned in worldly lusts and hate the knowledge of godliness.
- Proverbs 1:26 This is spoken according to our capacity, signifying that the wicked, which mock and jest at God’s word, shall have the just reward of their mocking.
- Proverbs 1:27 That is, your destruction, which thing you feared.
- Proverbs 1:28 Because they sought not with an affection to God, but for ease of their own grief.
- Proverbs 1:30 Showing that without faith and obedience, we can not call upon God aright.
- Proverbs 1:31 They shall feel what commodity their wicked life shall give them.
- Proverbs 1:32 That is, the prosperity and sensuality wherein they delight.
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