Verse 29

because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 6:23 : 23 For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
  • Isa 30:9-9 : 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh; 10 who tell the seers, "Don't see!" and to the prophets, "Don't prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits. 11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." 12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, "Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her."
  • John 3:20 : 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
  • Acts 7:51-54 : 51 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do. 52 Which of the prophets didn't your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers. 53 You received the law as it was ordained by angels, and didn't keep it!" 54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth.
  • Heb 11:25 : 25 choosing rather to share ill treatment with God's people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
  • Prov 5:12 : 12 and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
  • Ps 50:16-17 : 16 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, 17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?