25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
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But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Commentary
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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