Proverbs 1:28

Conservative English Version

You will ask for my help, but I won't listen; you will search, but you won't find me.

Cross References

Genesis 6:3

Then the LORD said, "I won't let my life-giving breath remain in anyone forever. No one will live for more than one hundred twenty years."

Job 27:9

without listening when they beg for mercy.

Job 35:12

God won't listen to the prayers of proud and evil people.

Psalm 18:41

They cried out for help, but no one saved them; they called out to you, but there was no answer.

Psalm 18:42

I ground them to dust blown by the wind, and I poured them out like mud in the streets.

Psalm 66:18

If my thoughts had been sinful, he would have refused to hear me.

Proverbs 15:29

The LORD never even hears the prayers of the wicked, but he answers the prayers of all who obey him.

Proverbs 8:17

I love everyone who loves me, and I will be found by all who honestly search.

Song of Solomon 5:6

My heart stood still while he spoke to me, but when I opened the door, my darling had disappeared. I searched and shouted, but I could not find him-- there was no answer.

Isaiah 1:15

"No matter how much you pray, I won't listen. You are too violent.

Jeremiah 11:11

Here is what I've decided to do. I will bring suffering on the people of Judah and Jerusalem, and no one will escape. They will beg me to help, but I won't listen to their prayers.

Jeremiah 14:12

They may even go without eating and offer sacrifices to please me and to give thanks. But when they cry out for my help, I won't listen, and I won't accept their sacrifices. Instead, I'll send war, starvation, and disease to wipe them out."

Ezekiel 8:18

So in my fierce anger, I will punish them without mercy and refuse to help them when they cry out to me."

Hosea 5:15

Then I'll return to my temple until they confess their guilt and worship me, until they are desperate and beg for my help.

Hosea 5:6

You offer sheep and cattle as sacrifices to me, but I have turned away and refuse to be found.

Amos 8:12

You will search everywhere-- from north to south, from east to west. You will go all over the earth, seeking a message from me, the LORD. But you won't find one.

Micah 3:4

Someday you will beg the LORD to help you, but he will turn away because of your sins.

Zechariah 7:13

and said, "You people paid no attention when I called out to you, and now I'll pay no attention when you call out to me."

Deuteronomy 1:45

Then you came back to the place of worship at Kadesh-Barnea and wept, but the LORD would not listen to your prayers.

James 4:3

Yet even when you do pray, your prayers are not answered, because you pray just for selfish reasons.

1 Samuel 8:18

and you will finally cry out for the LORD to save you from the king you wanted. But the LORD won't answer your prayers.