Proverbs 1:23
New International Version
Repent at my rebuke! Then I will pour out my thoughts to you, I will make known to you my teachings.

New Living Translation
Come and listen to my counsel. I’ll share my heart with you and make you wise.

English Standard Version
If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.

Berean Standard Bible
If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

King James Bible
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

New King James Version
Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

New American Standard Bible
“Turn to my rebuke, Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

NASB 1995
“Turn to my reproof, Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

NASB 1977
“Turn to my reproof, Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

Legacy Standard Bible
Turn to my reproof, Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

Amplified Bible
“If you will turn and pay attention to my rebuke, Behold, I [Wisdom] will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

Christian Standard Bible
If you respond to my warning, then I will pour out my spirit on you and teach you my words.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you respond to my warning, then I will pour out my spirit on you and teach you my words.

American Standard Version
Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
If you turn to my reproof, I shall bring forth my Spirit to you, and I shall show you my word.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.

Contemporary English Version
Listen as I correct you and tell you what I think.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.

English Revised Version
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Turn to me when I warn you. I will generously pour out my spirit for you. I will make my words known to you.

Good News Translation
Listen when I reprimand you; I will give you good advice and share my knowledge with you.

International Standard Version
Return to my correction! Look, I will pour out my spirit on you, and I will make my words known to you.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Turn you at my reproof; Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Literal Standard Version
Turn back at my reproof, behold, | I pour forth my spirit to you, | I make known my words with you.

Majority Standard Bible
If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

New American Bible
How long will you turn away at my reproof? [The arrogant delight in their arrogance, and fools hate knowledge.] Lo! I will pour out to you my spirit, I will acquaint you with my words:

NET Bible
If only you will respond to my rebuke, then I will pour out my thoughts to you and I will make my words known to you.

New Revised Standard Version
Give heed to my reproof; I will pour out my thoughts to you; I will make my words known to you.

New Heart English Bible
Turn at my reproof. Look, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words.

World English Bible
Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Young's Literal Translation
Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.

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Context
Wisdom Calls Aloud
22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge? 23If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you. 24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,…

Cross References
John 7:39
He was speaking about the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. For the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Isaiah 32:15
until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.

Joel 2:28
And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.


Treasury of Scripture

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.

turn

Isaiah 55:1-3,6,7
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price…

Jeremiah 3:14
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

Ezekiel 18:27-30
Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive…

my reproof

Proverbs 1:25,30
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: …

Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Proverbs 10:17
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.

behold

Isaiah 32:15
Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.

Isaiah 45:8
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

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Proverbs 1
1. The use of the proverbs
7. An exhortation to fear God, and believe his word
10. to avoid the enticing of sinners
20. Wisdom complains of her contempt
24. She threatens her contemners














(23) I will pour out my spirit unto you.--Comp. the prophecy of Joel 2:28, promised by our Lord (John 7:38-39), and fulfilled at Pentecost (Acts 2:17).

I will make known my words unto you.--For a similar promise that God's will shall be revealed to those who fear and follow Him, comp. Psalm 25:14 : "The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him;" and Christ's promise: "If any man will do God's will, he shall know of the doctrine," &c. (John 7:17). . . .

Verse 23. - Turn you at my reproof. A call is here made to repentance. The meaning seems to be "return to my reproof," i.e. place yourselves under my reproof (as Gejerus, Delitzsch), the לְ Being represented by ad, as in the Vulgate: convertimini ad correptionem meam. It is susceptible, however, of a different reading, i.e. "in consequence of, or because of (propter), my reproof," the prefix לְ being found in Numbers 16:34, "They fled at the cry," i.e. because of the cry. Reproof (תֶוכַחַת thochakhath); i.e. rebuke, or correction, by words. The LXX. ἔλεγχος conveys the argumentative conviction which will be present in the reproof. The word occurs again in vers. 23, 25, and 30 of this chapter, and also in Proverbs 3:11; Proverbs 5:12; Proverbs 6:23; Proverbs 27:5; Proverbs 29:15. Behold, I will pour out my Spirit unto you. The promise consequent upon, and the encouragement to, repentance. The promise is conditioned - if those addressed will heed the reproof of Wisdom, then she will pour forth her Spirit upon them, and cause them to know her words The verb hibbia (הִבִּיעַ), "to stream forth, or gush out," is here used figuratively. The outflow of the Spirit of Wisdom will be like the abundant and continuous gushing forth of water from the spring or fountain. The verb unites in it the figures of abundant fulness and refreshing invigoration (Umbreit, Elster); comp. Proverbs 15:2, 28; Psalm 59:7; Psalm 119:171; Ecclesiastes 10:1. We have here striking anticipation of the prophecy of Joel (Joel 2:28). The Spirit is that of Wisdom "and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and godly strength, the Spirit of knowledge and true godliness" (see Confirmation Office). The explanation of Beda, that it signifies her anger, is clearly inadmissible. I will make known my words unto you; i.e. as the LXX., "I will teach you my word" (διδάξω), or as the Vulgate "show" (ostendam), "expound, or make clear." My words (d'vari); i.e. precepts, or doctrine, or secrets. An intimate relation subsists between the "Spirit" of Wisdom and her "words," with which it is parallel. The former is the illuminating, invigorating principle which infuses life and power into the "words" of Wisdom, which she has already given, and which are already in our possession. Wisdom stands in the same relation to her words as the Divine Logos does to his utterances, into which he infuses himself. "It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life" (John 6:63. See Delitzsch, Wardlaw, in loc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If you had repented
תָּשׁ֗וּבוּ (tā·šū·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

at my rebuke,
לְֽת֫וֹכַחְתִּ֥י (lə·ṯō·w·ḵaḥ·tî)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 8433: Chastisement, correction, refutation, proof

then surely
הִנֵּ֤ה (hin·nêh)
Interjection
Strong's 2009: Lo! behold!

I would have poured out
אַבִּ֣יעָה (’ab·bî·‘āh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 5042: To gush forth, to utter, to emit

my
לָכֶ֣ם (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

spirit on you;
רוּחִ֑י (rū·ḥî)
Noun - common singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

I would have made
אוֹדִ֖יעָה (’ō·w·ḏî·‘āh)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular
Strong's 3045: To know

my words
דְבָרַ֣י (ḏə·ḇā·ray)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

known to you.
אֶתְכֶֽם׃ (’eṯ·ḵem)
Direct object marker | second person masculine plural
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case


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