Proverbs 1:28

When the scornful finally seek wisdom in crisis, they will not find her. It matters because it warns there is a point where repentance is sought too late.

Cross-references · 18

• Mic 3:4Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
• Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
• Jer 11:11Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.
• Jas 4:3You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
• Zech 7:13It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;
• Matt 25:10–12While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
• Job 27:9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
• Ps 18:41They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
• Jer 14:12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.”
• 1 Sam 8:18You will cry out in that day because of your king whom you will have chosen for yourselves; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.”
• Job 35:12There they cry, but no one gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
• Prov 8:17I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
• Ezek 8:18Therefore will I also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”
• Gen 6:3Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
• Matt 7:22–23Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
• Hos 5:15I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
• Ps 78:34–36When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
• Luke 13:25–28When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

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