Proverbs Chapter 1 verse 29 Holy Bible
For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah:
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For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:
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Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
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For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
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Because they hated knowledge, And didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.
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Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 29 and 30 belong to ver. 28, and are not the antecedent clauses to ver. 31, as Zochler remarks. They recapitulate the charges already made against the sinners in vers. 22 and 25, and now set them forth as the ground or reason why Wisdom, on her part, turns a deaf ear to their entreatries. Wisdom will disregard the n because they have previously disregatded her. The connection is denoted in the LXX. by γὰρ, for the Hebrew takbath ki, equivalent to "because," and in the Authorized Version by the punctuation. Did not choose the fear of the Lord. The verb "to choose" (בָּחַר, bakhar) combines in itself the meanings of eligere and diligere (Fleischer), and therefore signifies here not only choice of, but also the fuller sense of love for, the fear of the Lord. They despised; i.e. rejected the reproof with scorn or derision, sneered or turned up their noses at it (μυκτηρίζειν, LXX.), disparaged it (detrahere, Vulgate), or, more strongly, as Gejerus says, execrated it. Their rejection of reproof is stigmatized in stronger terms than in ver. 25.
