Proverbs 1:26

Posted by on June 2, 2016 · 1 Comment 

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
– Proverbs 1:26

This verse continues from the previous one. God laughing at their calamity is an expression of just judgment (Psalm 2:1-4; 37:12-13). The picture is clear. Wisdom has long cried to the simple and the fools to turn at her reproof. Wisdom has long warned of the destruction that waits at the end of folly’s road. Yet, the fools, the simple, the scorners have refused wise counsel and went on their own way. When they come to the end of that way, they will want to escape the dread consequences but God will not hear their cries then. The call to forsake folly and embrace wisdom is an urgent one.

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Proverbs 1:25

Posted by on June 1, 2016 · 1 Comment 

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
– Proverbs 1:25

To “set at nought” is to dismiss or to refuse as worthless. “Would none of” means not willing. The picture is once again drawn of fools who lack wisdom because they do not want it. They despise wisdom and count it foolishness. This must be kept in mind when the proceeding verses spell out the calamities that come on the fools. They are reaping what they have sown.

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