“Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;” (Proverbs 1:24”
1. Refusal of wisdom’s call
2. Disregard of her invitation
“Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;” (Proverbs 1:24)
3. Setting at naught her counsel
4. Rejection of her reproof
“For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:” (Proverbs 1:29)
5. Hatred of her knowledge
6. Refusal of fear of the Lord
“They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.” (Proverbs 1:30)
7. Rejection of wisdom’s counsel
8. Despising her reproof
“Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.” (Proverbs 1:31)
9. Reaping fruit of own way
10. Being filled with own schemes
“For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.” (Proverbs 1:32)
11. Turning away or backsliding
12. Being satisfied with prosperity
Wisdom is personified here indicating that every man is endowed with natural faculties to know right from wrong and to make godly decisions.
“That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.” (John 1:9)
“For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.” (Romans 2:12-16)
It is man’s own God-given wisdom which will laugh and mock at the calamity he brings upon himself through folly and rejection of her pleading. See Psalm 1
Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible