07/29/2022 – Day 152 – Proverbs 1 / 2 of 2 / “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.” Proverbs 1:7
Ok, I am going to pick it up from there with verses 22 through 30:
“How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge. If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you. But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand, since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke, I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you — shen calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me. Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord, since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke.”
And will conclude with Matthew Henry’s commentary from verse 26, pg 736:
“Their calamity will come (v. 26); troubles will come, in mind, in estate, which will convince them of their folly in setting God at a distance. Their fear shall come (the thing they were afraid of shall befall them); it shall come as desolation, as a mighty deluge bearing down all before it; and it shall come as a whirlind, which suddently and forcibly drives away all the chaff. Distress and anguish shall come upon them, for they shall see no way to escape, v. 27. Now God pities their folly, but he will then laugh at their calamity (v. 26). Those that ridicule religion will thereby but make themselves ridiculous before all the world. Now God is ready to hear their prayers and to meet them with mercy, if they would but seek to him for it; but then the door will be shut, and they shall cry in vain (v. 28): “Then they shall call upon me when it is too late, Lord, Lord, open to us, but I will not answer, because, when I called they would not answer.”
Soli Deo Gloria!