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Proverbs 1:22-23 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 1 · verses 22–23
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.Proverbs 1:22-23 · King James Version
Proverbs 1:22-23 in context
20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
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Key words (Strong's)
- scornerslûwtsproperly, to make mouths atH3887 →
- scorninglâtsôwnderisionH3944 →
- delightchâmadto delight inH2530 →
- reprooftôwkêchâhchastisementH8433 →
- spiritrûwachwindH7307 →
- foolskᵉçîylproperly, fatH3684 →
- knownyâdaʻto knowH3045 →
- onespᵉthîysillyH6612 →
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Solomon, having shown how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here shows how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God, which we shall for ever rue the neglect of. Observe, I. By whom God calls to us - by wisdom. It is wisdom that crieth without.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-33