Proverbi 1:28

28 Allora essi grideranno a me, ma io non risponderò; Mi ricercheranno sollecitamente, ma non mi troveranno;

Proverbi 1:28 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 1:28

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer
As he called them, and they refused to answer to his call, ( Proverbs 1:24 ) ; so it was just in him to return no answer to them, when they called on him to deliver them from the Romans, and save them from ruin: for this was what they called out for, and what they expected, that the Messiah would come and deliver them; this was what they buoyed themselves up with, and made them so desperate to the last; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me;
this is the very thing that Christ told the Jews, and much in the same words with these, ( John 7:34 ) ( 8:21 ) ; for when he was gone, and they were in distress, then they sought after the Messiah, in the desert, and in the secret chambers, and in this and the other place, where they were told he was; but, alas! they could not find him: the true Messiah, whom they had rejected, was come and gone, and would return no more, until his second coming to judgment; or, however, till he came in his kingdom and power, to their ruin and destruction; of which coming of his the Scriptures often speak.

Proverbi 1:28 In-Context

26 Io altresì riderò della vostra calamità; Io mi farò beffe, quando il vostro spavento sarà venuto;

27 Quando il vostro spavento sarà venuto, a guisa di ruina, E la vostra calamità sarà giunta, a guisa di turbo; Quando angoscia e distretta vi sarà sopraggiunta.

28 Allora essi grideranno a me, ma io non risponderò; Mi ricercheranno sollecitamente, ma non mi troveranno;

29 Perciocchè hanno odiata la scienza, E non hanno eletto il timor del Signore;

30 E non hanno gradito il mio consiglio, Ed hanno disdegnata ogni mia correzione.