Proverbs 1:27-33

The Call of Wisdom

27 when terror strikes you like l a storm
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish come upon you.
 28 m Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
they will seek me diligently but will not find me.
 29 Because they c hated knowledge
and n did not choose the fear of the Lord,
 30 h would have none of my counsel
and i despised all my reproof,
 31 therefore they shall eat o the fruit of their way,
and have p their fill of their own devices.
 32 For the simple are killed by q their turning away,
and r the complacency of fools destroys them;
 33 but s whoever listens to me will dwell secure
and will be t at ease, without dread of disaster."

  1. Cross References
    Zephaniah 1:15
    A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.
  2. Cross References
    1 Samuel 8:18
    And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.
    Job 27:9
    Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
  3. Cross References
    Proverbs 1:22
    How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
  4. Cross References
    Job 21:14
    They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
  5. Cross References
    Proverbs 1:25
    Because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof.
  6. Cross References
    Proverbs 1:25
    Because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 6:19
    Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not paid attention to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
  8. Cross References
    Proverbs 14:14
    The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.
    Isaiah 3:11
    Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
    Job 4:8
    As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same.
  9. Cross References
    Jeremiah 2:19
    Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord God of hosts.
  10. Cross References
    Psalms 73:18 - 19
    Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
  11. Cross References
    Psalms 25:12 - 13
    Who is the man who fears the Lord ? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
  12. Cross References
    Psalms 112:7 - 8
    He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.
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