22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-33)Solomon, having shown how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here shows how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God, which we shall for ever rue the neglect of. Observe, I. By whom God calls to us—by wisdom . It is wisdom that crieth without . The word is plural— wisdoms , for, as there is infinite wisdom in God, so there is the manifold wisdom of God , Eph. 3:10. G…
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