John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 1:30
They would none of my counsel ,.... Neither his doctrines nor his ordinances; nor would they attend to the wholesome counsel and advice he gave them in his sermons upon the mount, and in other discourses of his at other times and places; they despised all my reproof ; for their hypocrisy, uncleanness, covetousness, and other sins they were addicted to; see Matthew 23:1 ; but they "derided" him for it, Luke 16:14 ; where the same word is used as is by the Septuagint here. These things... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 1:20-33
Solomon, having shown how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here shows how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God, which we shall for ever rue the neglect of. Observe, I. By whom God calls to us?by wisdom. It is wisdom that crieth without. The word is plural?wisdoms, for, as there is infinite wisdom in God, so there is the manifold wisdom of God, Eph. 3:10. God speaks to the children of men by all the kinds of wisdom, and, as in every will, so in every word,... read more