Proverbs 1:25

The Message

“Since you laugh at my counsel and make a joke of my advice, How can I take you seriously? I’ll turn the tables and joke about your troubles! What if the roof falls in, and your whole life goes to pieces? What if catastrophe strikes and there’s nothing to show for your life but rubble and ashes? You’ll need me then. You’ll call for me, but don’t expect an answer. No matter how hard you look, you won’t find me.

Cross References

Psalm 81:11

“But my people didn’t listen, Israel paid no attention; So I let go of the reins and told them, ‘Run! Do it your own way!’

Proverbs 12:1

If you love learning, you love the discipline that goes with it— how shortsighted to refuse correction!

Proverbs 15:10

It’s a school of hard knocks for those who leave God’s path, a dead-end street for those who hate God’s rules.

Jeremiah 35:17

“So here’s what is going to happen. God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘I will bring calamity down on the heads of the people of Judah and Jerusalem—the very calamity I warned you was coming—because you turned a deaf ear when I spoke, turned your backs when I called.’”