What does Proverbs 1:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:"
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 in...
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....
THEN, &C. Illustration: Israel (Deuteronomy 1:45; Deuteronomy 1:46). See also Isaiah 1:15.Jeremiah 11:11.Ezekiel 8:18; Hosea 5:6....
_early_ Rather, EARNESTLY, or DILIGENTLY, R.V. text. The rendering _early_is due to the doubtful connection (see Bp Perowne on Psalms 63:1) of the Heb. word with _the dawn_(_mane consurgent_, Vulg.)....
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...
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: THEN SHALL THEY CALL UPON ME, BUT I WILL NOT ANSWER - (.) God saith, it is true, "Whosoeve...
1:28 early, (d-17) Or 'earnestly,' as Job 8:5 ....
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....
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...
THEN SHALL THEY CALL UPON ME. — They did not call upon Him in an “acceptable time,” in “a day of salvation” (Isaiah 49:8), while He was “near” (Isaiah 55:6); so at last the master of the house has “ri...
אָ֣ז יִ֭קְרָאֻנְנִי וְ לֹ֣א אֶֽעֱנֶ֑ה יְ֝שַׁחֲרֻ֗נְנִי וְ לֹ֣א יִמְצָאֻֽנְנִי׃...
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;...
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not (x) find me: (x) Because they sought not with an affection to God, but for ease of their own grief....
_Find me. Because their repentance was false, like that of Antiochus, 2 Machabees ix. 13., and Psalm xi. 4. (Calmet)_...
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...
THEN SHALL THEY CALL UPON ME, BUT I WILL NOT ANSWER,.... As he called them, and they refused to answer to his call, Proverbs 1:24; so it was just in him to return no answer to them, when they called o...
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: Ver. 28. _Then shall they call, &c._] This was Saul's misery; - The Philistines are upon me,...
_Because I have called_, &c. By my ministers, my judgments, the motions of my Spirit, and your own consciences; _and ye refused_ To obey my call; _I have stretched out my hand_ Offering mercy and grac...
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...
EARLY; or, _in the morning_, as the word properly signifies, and is here rendered by others, as soon as their calamity comes; or rather, with great diligence and fervency, as this phrase commonly sign...
Proverbs 1:28 call H7121 (H8799) answer H6030 (H8799) diligently H7836 (H8762) find H4672 (H8799) shall they - Genesis 6:3; Job 27:9, Job 35:12; Psalms 18:41; Isaiah 1:15;...
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. The words of the text are awful, but not hopeless; they pronounce God's judgment on the finally impenitent; the penitent they but awaken, that they may "hear the voice of the Son of Go...
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...
_Because I have called, and ye refused._ THE REJECTED CALL OF WISDOM I. The manner in which it has called upon you--in which the appeals of Wisdom and of religion have been made. In the manner, the...
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. Proverbs 8:...
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 o...
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...
Ezekiel 8:18; Genesis 6:3; Hosea 5:15; Hosea 6:1; Isaiah 1:15; James 4:3; Jeremiah 11:11; Jeremiah 14:12; Job 27:9; Job 35:12;...
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...
Early — With diligence and fervency....