Proverbs 1:29
27 when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
28 Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
30 They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
31 So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
- KJV
- For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
- WEB
- because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of the LORD.
- ASV
- For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah:
- DARBY
- Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
- BLB
- upon that they hated knowledge and they have not choosen the fear of YHWH.
- ÅB
- Fordi de hatet kunnskap og ikke ville frykte Herren,
- OTB
- Fordi de avviste visdom og ikke valgte å frykte Herren.
- B1930
- Fordi de hatet kunnskap og ikke vilde frykte Herren,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 6:23
For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
Read in contextProverbs 1:22
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
Read in contextJob 21:14–15
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Read in contextHebrews 11:25
He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
Read in contextIsaiah 27:11
When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
Read in contextLuke 10:42
But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
Read in contextJohn 3:20
Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
Read in contextProverbs 5:12
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
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