George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Proverbs 1:30
Despised. Literally, "destracted," (Haydock) supposing my threats would not be put in execution. Hebrew, "they abhorred." (Calmet)
Despised. Literally, "destracted," (Haydock) supposing my threats would not be put in execution. Hebrew, "they abhorred." (Calmet)
This is no arbitrary sentence. The fault was all along their own. The fruit of their own ways is death....
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...
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....
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...
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...
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. THEY WOULD NONE OF MY COUNSEL; THEY DESPISED ALL MY REPROOF - (.) "Despised," rejected with reviling and cursing....
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...
She obtains judgement. Their punishment is severe. This is because they refused wisdom. They did evil things. Now they will suffer a terrible punishment. Their punishment is sudden, like a storm. It...
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...
לֹא ־אָב֥וּ לַ עֲצָתִ֑י נָ֝אֲצ֗וּ כָּל ־תֹּוכ
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...
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...
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;...
They would none of my counsel: they (y) despised all my reproof. (y) Showing that without faith and obedience, we cannot call on God correctly....
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...
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...
THEY WOULD NONE OF MY COUNSEL,.... Neither his doctrines nor his ordinances; nor would they attend to the wholesome counsel and advice he gave them in his sermons upon the mount, and in other discours...
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Ver. 30. _They would none of my counsel._] These are condemned and menaced, as well as those that despised or execrated God's reproof. So...
_For that they hated knowledge_ Hated the light of divine truth, because it discovered to them the evil of their ways, John 3:20; or, hated the practical knowledge of God, and of their duty to him, _a...
THE INVITATION OF WISDOM...
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...
THEY WOULD NONE OF MY COUNSEL; they refused to be guided by my counsels or precepts....
Proverbs 1:30 would H14 (H8804) counsel H6098 despised H5006 (H8804) rebuke H8433 Proverbs
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Jeremiah 8:9; Luke 14:18; Proverbs 1:25; Psalms 119:111; Psal
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...