Proverbs 1:29

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:22 : 22 `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For a lamp `is' the command, And the law a light, And a way of life `are' reproofs of instruction,
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it `is' not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.
  • Isa 30:9-9 : 9 That a rebellious people `is' this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah. 10 Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,' And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits, 11 Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.' 12 Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'
  • John 3:20 : 20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;
  • Acts 7:51-54 : 51 `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye; 52 which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed those who declared before about the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye betrayers and murderers have become, 53 who received the law by arrangement of messengers, and did not keep `it'.' 54 And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 having chosen rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have sin's pleasure for a season,
  • Prov 5:12 : 12 And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. 15 What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
  • Ps 50:16-17 : 16 And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth? 17 Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

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    30They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

    31And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.

  • Prov 1:28
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    28Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

  • Prov 1:7
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    7Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,

  • Job 21:14
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    14And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

  • Prov 8:13
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    13The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

  • Prov 1:22-25
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    22`Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

    23Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.

    24Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

    25And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

  • Prov 5:12-13
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    12And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

    13And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.

  • Isa 66:4
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    4I also -- I fix on their vexations, And their fears I bring in to them, Because I have called, and there is none answering, I spake, and they have not hearkened, And they do the evil things in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.

  • Ps 50:17
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    17Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

  • Jer 9:13
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    13And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it,

  • Rom 3:17-18
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    17And a way of peace they did not know.

    18There is no fear of God before their eyes.'

  • Isa 1:29
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    29For `men' are ashamed because of the oaks That ye have desired, And ye are confounded because of the gardens That ye have chosen.

  • Prov 2:5
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    5Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22For my people `are' foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons `are' they, yea, they `are' not intelligent, Wise `are' they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

  • Deut 32:28
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    28For a nation lost to counsels `are' they, And there is no understanding in them.

  • Prov 9:10
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    10The commencement of wisdom `is' the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones `is' understanding.

  • Prov 12:1
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    1Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof `is' brutish.

  • Zeph 1:6
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    6And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.

  • Hos 4:6
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    6Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

  • Ps 36:1
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    1To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, `Fear of God is not before his eyes,

  • Jer 8:9
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    9Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?

  • Rom 1:28
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    28And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

  • Ps 107:11
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    11Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4And I -- I said, `Surely these `are' poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

  • Rom 1:21-22
    2 verses
    70%

    21because, having known God they did not glorify `Him' as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

    22professing to be wise, they were made fools,

  • Deut 32:19
    70%

    19And Jehovah seeth and despiseth -- For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

  • Prov 19:3
    70%

    3The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

  • Jer 32:33
    70%

    33And they turn unto Me the neck, and not the face, and teaching them, rising early and teaching, and they are not hearkening to accept instruction.

  • Zeph 3:7
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    7I have said: Only, ye do fear Me, Ye do accept instruction, And her habitation is not cut off, All that I have appointed for her, But they have risen early, They have corrupted all their doings.

  • Prov 8:10
    70%

    10Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold.

  • Job 37:24
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    24Therefore do men fear Him, He seeth not any of the wise of heart.

  • Ps 14:4
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    4Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

  • Job 36:12
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    12And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.

  • Hos 10:3
    70%

    3For now they say: We have no king, Because we have not feared Jehovah, And the king -- what doth he for us?

  • Ps 28:5
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    5For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up.

  • Job 17:4
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    4For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.

  • Amos 5:10
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    10They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.

  • Isa 29:13
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    13And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!

  • Prov 15:32
    70%

    32Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.

  • Job 24:13
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    13They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

  • Job 28:28
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    28And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that `is' wisdom, And to turn from evil `is' understanding.'

  • Prov 28:5
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    5Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.