Proverbs 1:28

New International Version

“Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me,

Cross References

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

Job 27:9

Does God listen to their cry when distress comes upon them?

Job 35:12

He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.

Psalm 18:41

They cried for help, but there was no one to save them— to the Lord, but he did not answer.

Psalm 18:42

I beat them as fine as windblown dust; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

Psalm 66:18

If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

Song of Solomon 5:6

I opened for my beloved, but my beloved had left; he was gone. My heart sank at his departure. I looked for him but did not find him. I called him but he did not answer.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

Jeremiah 14:12

Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.”

Ezekiel 8:18

Therefore I will deal with them in anger; I will not look on them with pity or spare them. Although they shout in my ears, I will not listen to them.”

Hosea 5:15

Then I will return to my lair until they have borne their guilt and seek my face— in their misery they will earnestly seek me.”

Hosea 5:6

When they go with their flocks and herds to seek the Lord, they will not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.

Amos 8:12

People will stagger from sea to sea and wander from north to east, searching for the word of the Lord, but they will not find it.

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.

Zechariah 7:13

“ ‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ says the Lord Almighty.

Deuteronomy 1:45

You came back and wept before the Lord, but he paid no attention to your weeping and turned a deaf ear to you.

James 4:3

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

1 Samuel 8:18

When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”