Proverbs 1:29
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore shall they eat of 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 the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Read in contextProverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Read in contextJob 21:14–15
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Read in contextHebrews 11:25
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Read in contextIsaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Read in contextLuke 10:42
But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Read in contextJohn 3:20
For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Read in contextProverbs 5:12
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
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