Proverbs - 1:30



30 They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 1:30.

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Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
they would not consent to my counsel, but they detracted from all of my corrections.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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.

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 discourses of his at other times and places;
they despised all my reproof; for their hypocrisy, uncleanness, covetousness, and other sins they were addicted to; see Matthew 23:1; but they "derided" him for it, Luke 16:14; where the same word is used as is by the Septuagint here. These things are repeated from Proverbs 1:25, to observe their ingratitude, and how just was their ruin, and what the true cause of it.

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