Proverbs Chapter 1 verse 28 Holy Bible

ASV Proverbs 1:28

Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
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BBE Proverbs 1:28

Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
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DARBY Proverbs 1:28

-- then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
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KJV Proverbs 1:28

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
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WBT Proverbs 1:28


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WEB Proverbs 1:28

Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
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YLT Proverbs 1:28

Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - The phase which the address now enters upon continues to the thirty-first verse. The change in this verse from the second to the third person is striking. It implies that Wisdom thinks fools no longer worthy of being addressed personally - "Quasi stultos indignos censunt ulteriori alloquio" (Gejerus and Michaelis). The declaration is the embodiment of the laughter and scorn of ver. 26. The three verbs, "they shall call," "they shall seek," "they shall find," occur in uncommon and emphatic forms in the original. They are some out of the few instances where the future terminations are inserted fully before the pronominal suffix. I will not answer. The distress and anguish consequent upon their calamity and fear lead them to pray, but there will be no answer nor heed given to their cry. They are not heard, because they do not cry rightly nor in the time of grace (Lapide). See the striking parallel to the tenor of this passage in Luke 13:24-28. They shall seek me early; i.e. diligently. The verb שָׁחַר (shakhar) is the denominative from the substantive שַׁחַר (shakar), "the dawn, morning," and signifies to go out and seek something in the obscurity of the morning twilight (Delitzsch, Zockler), and hence indicates diligence and earnestness in the search. Gesenius gives the same derivation, but connects it with the dawn in the sense of the light breaking forth, and thus, as it were, seeking (see also Proverbs 2:27; 7:15; 8:17; Hosea 5:15).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) Then shall they call upon me.--They did not call upon Him in an "acceptable time," in "a day of salvation" (Isaiah 49:8), while He was "near" (Isaiah 55:6); so at last the master of the house has "risen up, and shut-to the door" (Luke 13:25), and will not listen to their cries.They shall seek me early.--As God had done, "daily rising up early," and sending the prophets unto them (Jeremiah 7:25).