29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. …
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
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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