Proverbs 1:23

21 in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

24 Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

25 because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
KJV
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
WEB
Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
ASV
Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.
DARBY
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.
BLB
Turn back at my rebuke; behold, I will pour out on you⁺ my spirit; I will make known my words to you⁺.
ÅB
Vend om og gi akt på min tilrettevisning! Da vil jeg la min ånd velle fram for dere, jeg vil kunngjøre dere mine ord.
OTB
Omvend dere ved min irettesettelse!
Da vil jeg utøse min ånd over dere,
jeg vil gjøre mine ord kjent for dere.
B1930
Vend om og gi akt på min tilrettevisning! Da vil jeg la min ånd velle frem for eder, jeg vil kunngjøre eder mine ord.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Acts 3:19

    Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

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  • Ezekiel 33:11

    Say to them: ‘As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked should turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’

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  • Ezekiel 18:27–30

    But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

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  • Acts 2:36–38

    Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”

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  • Joel 2:28

    And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

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  • Isaiah 55:6–7

    Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

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  • Isaiah 32:15

    until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

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  • Proverbs 12:1

    Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.

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