Proverbs 1:28

Myles Coverdale Bible

Then shal they call vpo me, but I wil not heare: they shal seke me early, but they shal not fynde me:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then they will call me, but I won’t answer;they will search for me, but won’t find me.

Hebrew Names Version
Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

King James Version
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

English Standard Version
Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

New Century Version
"Then you will call to me, but I will not answer. You will look for me, but you will not find me.

New English Translation
Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.

Amplified Bible
"Then they will call upon me (Wisdom), but I will not answer; They will seek me eagerly but they will not find me,

New American Standard Bible
"Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but will not find me,

World English Bible
Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;They will seek me earnestly but they will not find me,

Berean Standard Bible
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

Contemporary English Version
You will ask for my help, but I won't listen; you will search, but you won't find me.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then they will call me, but I won't answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they won't find me.

Darby Translation
—then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.

Easy-to-Read Version
"Fools will call for me, but I will not answer. They will look for me, but they will not find me.

George Lamsa Translation
Then they shall call upon me, but I will not answer them; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me;

Good News Translation
Then you will call for wisdom, but I will not answer. You may look for me everywhere, but you will not find me.

Lexham English Bible
then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me.

Literal Translation
Then they shall call on me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

American Standard Version
Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:

Bible in Basic English
Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then will they call me, but I will not answer, they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me.

King James Version (1611)
Then shall they call vpon mee, but I will not answere; they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shall they call vpon me, but I wyll not aunswere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For it shall be that when ye call upon me, I will not hearken to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find me.

English Revised Version
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thanne thei schulen clepe me, and Y schal not here; thei schulen rise eerli, and thei schulen not fynde me.

Update Bible Version
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:

Webster's Bible Translation
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

New King James Version
"Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.

New Living Translation
"When they cry for help, I will not answer. Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.

New Life Bible
then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will look for me, but they will not find me.

New Revised Standard
Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but will not find me.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then, will they call me, but I will not answer, they will seek me diligently, but shall not find me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:

Revised Standard Version
Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

Young's Literal Translation
Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me,

Contextual Overview

²⁰ Wy?dome crieth without, & putteth forth hir voyce in the stretes. ²¹ She calleth before ye congregacion in ye open gates, and sheweth hir wordes thorow ye cite, sayenge: ²² O ye childre, how loge wil ye loue childyshnesse? how longe wil ye scorners delyte in scornynge, & ye vnwyse be enemies vnto knowlege? ²³ O turne you vnto my correccion: lo, I wil expresse my mynde vnto you, and make you vnderstode my wordes. ²⁴ Seinge then that I haue called, and ye refused it: I haue stretched out my honde, and no ma regarded it, ²⁵ but all my coucels haue ye despysed, and set my correccios at naught. ²⁶ Therfore shal I also laugh in yor destruccion, and mocke you, when ye thinge that ye feare cometh vpon you: ²⁷ euen whe ye thinge that ye be afrayed of, falleth in sodenly like a storme, and yor misery like a tempest: yee wha trouble and heuynesse cometh vpon you. ²⁸ Then shal they call vpo me, but I wil not heare: they shal seke me early, but they shal not fynde me: ²⁹ And yt because they hated knowlege, and receaued not ye feare of ye LORDE,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall they: Genesis 6:3, Job 27:9, Job 35:12, Psalms 18:41, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 11:11, Jeremiah 14:12, Ezekiel 8:18, Micah 3:4, Zechariah 7:13, Matthew 7:22, Matthew 7:23, Matthew 25:10-12, Luke 13:25-28, James 4:3

they shall seek: Psalms 78:34-36, Hosea 5:15, Hosea 6:1-4

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:21 - this distress Judges 9:7 - Hearken 1 Samuel 28:6 - inquired 2 Samuel 22:42 - unto the Lord 2 Kings 3:13 - get Psalms 32:6 - pray Psalms 50:17 - hatest Psalms 63:1 - early Proverbs 21:13 - cry himself Isaiah 16:12 - when Jeremiah 6:24 - anguish Ezekiel 20:31 - and shall Hosea 5:6 - they John 9:31 - we know Romans 2:9 - Tribulation Romans 11:7 - Israel

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In ye begynnynge God created heauen & earth:

Genesis 1:3
And God sayde: let there be light, & there was light.

Genesis 1:4
And God sawe the light that it was good. Then God deuyded ye light from the darcknes,

Genesis 1:5
and called the light, Daye: and the darcknes, Night Then of the euenynge and mornynge was made the first daye.

Genesis 1:17
And God set them in the firmament of heauen, yt they might shyne vpo earth,

Genesis 1:18
and to rule the daye and the night, and to deuyde the light from darcknes. And God sawe that it was good.

Genesis 1:22
and blessed them, sayenge: Growe, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sees, and let the foules multiplie vpon the earth.

Genesis 8:17
As for all the beastes that are with the, what so euer flesh it be (both foule & catell and all maner of wormes that crepe vpon the earth) let them go out with the, and be ye occupied vpon the earth, growe and multiplye vpon the earth.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noe and his sonnes, and sayde vnto them: increace & multiplye, and fyll the earth.

Genesis 9:7
As for you, be ye frutefull, and increase, and be occupied vpon the earth, that ye maye multiplye therin.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer,.... As he called them, and they refused to answer to his call, Proverbs 1:24; so it was just in him to return no answer to them, when they called on him to deliver them from the Romans, and save them from ruin: for this was what they called out for, and what they expected, that the Messiah would come and deliver them; this was what they buoyed themselves up with, and made them so desperate to the last;

they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me; this is the very thing that Christ told the Jews, and much in the same words with these, John 7:34; for when he was gone, and they were in distress, then they sought after the Messiah, in the desert, and in the secret chambers, and in this and the other place, where they were told he was; but, alas! they could not find him: the true Messiah, whom they had rejected, was come and gone, and would return no more, until his second coming to judgment; or, however, till he came in his kingdom and power, to their ruin and destruction; of which coming of his the Scriptures often speak.