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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Proverbs 1:25

but ye have set at naught all My counsel, refusing to make use of it and to follow it, and would none of My reproof, absolutely declining to consider it,

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS A detailed analysis, as we have made it in other books, cannot be fully made in this collection of proverbs. Most of them are detached and each has a message by itself. To int...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 1-9. FIRST SECTION. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM. Proverbs 1:1. Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection. The word for PROVERB, _mâ shâ l,_ has a wide significance _in Heb....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 753 THE NEED OF ATTENDING TO GOD’S GRACIOUS INVITATIONS Proverbs 1:20. Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: she crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 1:20-33 20. Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places; 21. She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: BUT YE HAVE SET AT NOUGHT ALL MY COUNSEL, AND WOULD NONE OF MY REPROOF. So "the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:25 rejected (c-4) Or 'avoided.' see ch. 4.15....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The chapter falls into three principal divisions. 1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book, which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's knowledge. I...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS King Solomon ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. He brought peace and wealth to the nation. Solomon’s workmen built pa...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE WOMAN CALLED WISDOM In his second story, Solomon tells us about a woman. This woman’s name is Wisdom. The woman is upset, and she is angry. This is why she shouts. Her children are not obeying...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תִּפְרְע֥וּ כָל ־עֲצָתִ֑י וְ֝ תֹוכַחְתִּ֗י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of the Holy One is understa...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE CALL OF WISDOM Proverbs 1:20-33 The word _Wisdom_ and the description of her standing _atthe head of the noisy streets-_ see Proverbs 1:21, r.v., margin-remind us of our Lord, who, as the Word o...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people. Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God; intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine wisdom;...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT YE HAVE SET AT NOUGHT ALL MY COUNSEL,.... The same with "the counsel of God", Acts 20:27. The whole Gospel, and all the truths of it; the entire scheme of salvation by Jesus Christ, which is the p...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: Ver. 25. _But ye have set at naught._] As those recusant _a_ guests in the Gospel that pretended they therefore came not, becau...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Because I have called_, &c. By my ministers, my judgments, the motions of my Spirit, and your own consciences; _and ye refused_ To obey my call; _I have stretched out my hand_ Offering mercy and grac...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    20-33 Solomon, having showed how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here declares how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God. Christ himself is Wisdom, is Wisdoms. Th...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SET AT NOUGHT, or _despised_, or _made void_; resisted its power and authority. MY COUNSEL: either, 1. My design of doing sinners good, which you have made of none effect to yourselves. Or, 2. My co...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 1:25 disdained H6544 (H8799) counsel H6098 would H14 (H8804) rebuke H8433 you - Pr

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    But If They Refuse To Respond To Wisdom's Voice And Fail To Choose The Fear Of YHWH Then One Day, When They Suffer The Consequences Of Their Refusal As They Surely Will, Wisdom Will Mock At Them, And...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    WISDOM IS DEPICTED AS CRYING OUT TO BE HEARD, LONGING FOR RESPONSE, PROMISING INCULCATION OF HER OWN SPIRIT, AND WARNING OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF REFUSAL (PROVERBS 1:20). We have here the first of the w...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DISCOURSE 1. ADDRESSED TO ‘MY SON'. THOSE WHO SEEK TO WALK IN THE FEAR OF YHWH WILL LISTEN TO THE INSTRUCTION OF GODLY AUTHORITY, AND WILL AVOID THE ENTICEMENTS OF SINNERS MOTIVATED BY GREED. WISDOM I...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 1:24 I. The person represented as speaking these very solemn and terrible words is that same wisdom which is represented in the verses before the text as making most gracious offers to all wh...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Proverbs 1:24. The words of the text are awful, but not hopeless; they pronounce God's judgment on the finally impenitent; the penitent they but awaken, that they may "hear the voice of the Son of Go...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Wisdom's reasoning with the children of men and the certain ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to Wisdom's call. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son, Wisdom, (Christ). CONCLUSION: Of all thin...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 1:1. _Proverbs,_ apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pa...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Because I have called, and ye refused._ THE REJECTED CALL OF WISDOM I. The manner in which it has called upon you--in which the appeals of Wisdom and of religion have been made. In the manner, the...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 1:20 Wisdom is personified here as a woman. She is pictured appealing to simple ones, scoffers, and fools to pay attention to her words. Wisdom speaks in a way that recalls t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 1:20. The word _wisdom_ is in the plural form in the Hebrew. PROVERBS 1:27. DESOLATION, or “tempest.” PROVERBS 1:28. To seek early denotes “earnestly.” See ch....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 1:1 PART I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION. The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short and concise language of...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times write a preface to their work. The Proverbs of Solomon the so...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 36:16; Luke 7:30; Proverbs 1:30; Proverbs 12:1; Pr

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    WISDOM'S CALL Proverbs 1:20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Where the voice of Wisdom is heard. Wisdom doth not speak alone among the wise. She doth not sound forth her voice alone in cloistered circles, whe...

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