Devine Scripture

Proverbs 1:29

Proverbs chapter 1 · verse 29 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah,

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah,

Context

v.28Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:

v.29This passage

v.30They would none of my counsel, They despised all my reproof.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 1:22

    How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?

  • Psalms 50:16

    But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,

  • Isaiah 30:9

    For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;

  • Isaiah 27:11

    When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

  • Acts 7:51

    Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

  • Job 21:14

    And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.