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Proverbs 1:20–33 — Wisdom Cries Aloud · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time, rooted in wisdom, growing wiser, one passage at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we'll be looking at Proverbs 120-33, reading from the ESV.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the head of the noisy streets she cries out, at the entrance of the city gates she speaks.
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  SPEAKER_00: How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
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  SPEAKER_00: How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
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  SPEAKER_00: If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make my words known to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because I have called and you refuse to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, I also will laugh at your calamity.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will mock when terror strikes you, when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you, then they will call upon me, but I will not answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: They will seek me diligently, but will not find me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them.
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  SPEAKER_00: But whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs pictures wisdom as a woman crying out in public.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because wisdom is being presented as a voice calling people to listen, and she is not hidden away.
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  SPEAKER_00: She is in the streets, the markets, in the city gates.
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  SPEAKER_00: The picture is that wisdom is calling openly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then she says, if you turn at my reproof.
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  SPEAKER_00: To turn at reproof simply means to listen to correction and change direction when you are shown that you are wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom is not just pointing out a mistake, she is giving them a chance to respond to it, but they refuse.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage says they ignored her counsel, rejected her correction, and hated knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then comes one of the harder lines.
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  SPEAKER_00: I also will laugh at your calamity.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is not wisdom enjoying someone's pain.
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  SPEAKER_00: The point is that they repeatedly rejected warning, and now the consequences they refuse to take seriously have arrived.
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  SPEAKER_00: What they treated lightly is no longer light.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is why verse 31 says, They shall eat the fruit of their way.
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  SPEAKER_00: In simple terms, they now have to live with what their own choices produced.
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  SPEAKER_00: The path they chose has finally produced its fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And notice another warning: the complacency of fools destroys them.
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  SPEAKER_00: A person does not always have to be openly rebellious to be in danger.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes the problem is becoming too comfortable to listen, too careless to change, or too sure that nothing bad will come from the direction they are going.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the passage ends.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster.
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  SPEAKER_00: That does not mean a wise person will never face trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs is teaching a general truth about the safety of listening to wisdom instead of choosing a destructive path.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom does not promise a life with no hardship.
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  SPEAKER_00: It teaches us how to avoid the destruction that foolish choices can bring.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the picture Proverbs 120-33 leaves us with.