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Proverbs 1:30 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 1 · verse 30
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.Proverbs 1:30 · King James Version
What Proverbs 1:30 means
This is wisdom speaking about people who would none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof. The refusal is the whole point — it isn't that they never heard, it's that they decided. The verses around it name the cost: they eat the fruit of their own way.
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Proverbs 1:30 in context
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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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