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Proverb Of The Week: The Wisdom Of God

February 28th, 2007 at 11:46pm Manchild

“Proverbs 1:20 Wisdom cries aloud in the streets, she raises her voice in the markets; :21 She cries at the head of the noisy intersections [in the chief gathering places]; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:

:22 How long , O simple one [open to evil], will you love being simple? And the scoffers delight in scoffing and [self-confident] fools hate knowledge?

:23 If you will turn (repent) and give heed to my reproof, behold, I [Wisdom] will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make my words known to you.[Isa. 11:2; Eph. 1:17-20.]

:24 Because I have called and you have refused [to answer], have stretched out my hand and no man has heeded it, [Isa. 65:11-12; 66:4; Jer. 7:13-14; Zech. 7:11-13.]

:25 And you treated as nothing all my counsel and would accept none of my reproof,

:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when the thing comes that shall cause you terror and panic –

:27 When your panic comes as a storm and desolation and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

:28 Then will they call upon me [Wisdom] but I will not answer; they will seek me early and diligently but they will not find me. [Job 27:9; 35:12-13; Isa. 1:15-16; Jer. 11:11; Micah 3:4; James 4:3.]

:29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord, [Prov. 8:13.]

:30 Would accept none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof,

:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be satiated with their own devices.

:32 For the backsliding of the simple [open to evil] shall slay them and the careless ease of the [self-confident] fools shall destroy them. [Isa. 32:6.]

:33 But whoso hearkens me [Wisdom] shall dwell securely and in confident trust and shall be quiet, without fear or dread of evil.”

The Amplified Bible