For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: Treasury of Scripture that Proverbs 1:22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Proverbs 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; Proverbs 6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: Job 21:14,15 Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways... Psalm 50:16,17 But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth... Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire... Isaiah 30:9-12 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD... John 3:20 For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Acts 7:51-54 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you... not Luke 10:42 But one thing is needful: and Mary has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. Hebrews 11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Context Wisdom Calls Aloud
20Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets: 21She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying, 22How long, you simple ones, will you 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 to you, I will make known my words to you. 24Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25But you have set at nothing all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes; 27When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes on you. 28Then shall they call on 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. 33But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Because they have hated instruction and received not the fear of the Lord,
Darby Bible Translation
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
King James Bible
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Young's Literal Translation
Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
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