Proverbs 1:29

Revised Standard Version

Because they hated knowledge and did not choose 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,

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

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,

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 cries aloud in the street; in the markets she raises her voice; ²¹ on the top of the walls she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: ²² "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? ²³ Give heed to my reproof; behold, I will pour out my thoughts to you; I will make my words known to you. ²⁴ Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, ²⁵ and you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, ²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic strikes you, ²⁷ when panic strikes you like a storm, and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. ²⁸ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. ²⁹ Because they hated knowledge and did not choose 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 firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,

Genesis 1:15
and let them be lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth." And it was so.

Genesis 1:16
And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also.

Genesis 1:24
And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so.

Genesis 1:25
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion 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 creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."

Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."

Genesis 2:16
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

Genesis 9:3
Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

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.