Verse 22

How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 5:12 : 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
  • Ps 1:1 : 1 Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
  • Prov 3:34 : 34 He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?
  • Prov 1:4 : 4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
  • Exod 10:3 : 3 Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you be lifted up in your pride before me? let my people go so that they may give me worship.
  • Exod 16:28 : 28 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?
  • Num 14:27 : 27 How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.
  • Job 34:7 : 7 What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,
  • Prov 6:9 : 9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
  • Prov 7:7 : 7 I saw among the young men one without sense,
  • Prov 8:5 : 5 Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.
  • Prov 9:4-6 : 4 Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says: 5 Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed. 6 Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.
  • Prov 9:16-18 : 16 Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says: 17 Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing. 18 But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.
  • Prov 14:6 : 6 The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
  • Prov 15:12 : 12 The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.
  • Prov 19:29 : 29 Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.
  • Prov 21:11 : 11 When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.
  • Matt 9:13 : 13 But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.
  • Matt 11:29-30 : 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; 30 For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
  • Luke 19:42 : 42 Saying, If you, even you, had knowledge today, of the things which give peace! but you are not able to see them.
  • John 3:20 : 20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
  • 2 Pet 3:3 : 3 Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,
  • Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who gives ear, say, Come. And let him who is in need come; and let everyone desiring it take of the water of life freely.