Proverbs 1:29

Bible in Basic English

For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Because they hated knowledge,didn’t choose to fear the Lord,

Hebrew Names Version
Because they hated knowledge, And didn't choose the fear of the LORD.

King James Version
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord :

English Standard Version
Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord ,

New Century Version
It is because you rejected knowledge and did not choose to respect the Lord .

New English Translation
Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the Lord ,

Amplified Bible
Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD [that is, obeying Him with reverence and awe-filled respect],

New American Standard Bible
Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD.

World English Bible
Because they hated knowledge, And didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.

Legacy Standard Bible
Because they hated knowledgeAnd did not choose the fear of Yahweh.

Berean Standard Bible
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
No, you would not learn, and you refused to respect the Lord .

Complete Jewish Bible
Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of Adonai ,

Darby Translation
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;

Easy-to-Read Version
That is because they hated knowledge. They refused to fear and respect the Lord .

George Lamsa Translation
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the worship of the LORD.

Good News Translation
You have never had any use for knowledge and have always refused to obey the Lord .

Lexham English Bible
Since they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Yahweh,

Literal Translation
Instead they hated knowledge and chose not the fear of Jehovah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And yt because they hated knowlege, and receaued not ye feare of ye LORDE,

American Standard Version
For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD;

King James Version (1611)
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the feare of the Lord.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And that because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the feare of the Lorde,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For they hated wisdom, and did not choose the word of the Lord:

English Revised Version
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thei hatiden teching, and thei token not the drede of the Lord,

Update Bible Version
For they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Yahweh:

Webster's Bible Translation
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

New King James Version
Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD,

New Living Translation
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the Lord .

New Life Bible
Because they hated much learning, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.

New Revised Standard
Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord ,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Because they hated knowledge, and, the reverence of Yahweh, did not choose;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

Revised Standard Version
Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,

Young's Literal Translation
Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

THE MESSAGE
"Because you hated Knowledge and had nothing to do with the Fear-of- God, Because you wouldn't take my advice and brushed aside all my offers to train you, Well, you've made your bed—now lie in it; you wanted your own way—now, how do you like it? Don't you see what happens, you simpletons, you idiots? Carelessness kills; complacency is murder. First pay attention to me, and then relax. Now you can take it easy—you're in good hands."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD.

Contextual Overview

²⁰ Wisdom is crying out in the street; her voice is loud in the open places; ²¹ Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town: ²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge? ²³ Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you. ²⁴ Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand; ²⁵ You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words: ²⁶ So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear; ²⁷ When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you. ²⁸ Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me: ²⁹ For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 5:12, Proverbs 6:23, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Psalms 50:16, Psalms 50:17, Isaiah 27:11, Isaiah 30:9-12, John 3:20, Acts 7:51-54

not: Luke 10:42, Hebrews 11:25

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 30:19 - choose life Judges 9:7 - Hearken 1 Chronicles 21:10 - choose 2 Chronicles 13:5 - Ought ye not Nehemiah 1:11 - who desire Job 33:14 - perceiveth Job 34:27 - would Psalms 82:5 - know not Psalms 119:30 - chosen Psalms 119:173 - for Proverbs 1:7 - but Proverbs 10:21 - fools Isaiah 28:9 - shall he teach Isaiah 65:12 - and did Jeremiah 9:6 - refuse Luke 8:12 - by John 1:5 - General John 8:32 - ye shall John 9:31 - we know Romans 1:28 - as they did Romans 3:11 - none that understandeth

Cross-References

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

Genesis 1:15
And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

Genesis 1:16
And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.

Genesis 1:25
And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

Genesis 1:27
And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

Genesis 1:28
And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

Genesis 2:16
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:

Genesis 9:3
Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For that they hated knowledge,.... Spiritual and evangelical; the knowledge of the Scriptures, of the promises and prophecies of them respecting the Messiah, though they were called upon and exhorted to "search" them; the knowledge of the Messiah, his person, offices, and grace; the knowledge of his Gospel, and the doctrines of it; see Proverbs 1:22;

and did not choose the fear of the Lord; which is the beginning of knowledge, Proverbs 1:7; instead of choosing, they cast off the fear of the Lord; and by their rejection of the Messiah, and their usage of him, it plainly appeared that the fear of God was not before their eyes nor upon their hearts; nor did they choose or care for the pure, spiritual, and evangelical worship of God, introduced in the Gospel dispensation; the ordinances of Christ they did not choose to submit to; and would neither go into he kingdom of God or Gospel church state themselves, nor suffer those that were entering to go in, Matthew 23:13; but rather chose their superstition and will worship, according to the tradition of the elders, by which they made the word and worship of God of none effect.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is no arbitrary sentence. The fault was all along their own. The fruit of their own ways is death.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 1:29. They hated knowledge — This argues the deepest degree of intellectual and moral depravity.