Proverbs 29:1
Good News Translation
If you get more stubborn every time you are corrected, one day you will be crushed and never recover.

New Revised Standard Version
One who is often reproved, yet remains stubborn, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.

Contemporary English Version
If you keep being stubborn after many warnings, you will suddenly discover you have gone too far.

New American Bible
Those stiff-necked in the face of reproof in an instant will be shattered beyond cure.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.

Proverbs 1:24-31 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions. . . .

1 Samuel 2:25,34 If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them. . . .

1 Kings 17:1 And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to Achab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth.

1 Kings 18:18 And he said: I have not troubled Israel, but thou and thy father's house, who have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and have followed Baalim.

1 Kings 20:42 And he said to him: Thus saith the Lord. Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man worthy of death, thy life shall be for his life, and thy people for his people.

1 Kings 21:20-23 And Achab said to Elias: Hast thou found me thy enemy? He said: I have found thee because thou art sold, to do evil in the sight of the Lord. . . .

1 Kings 22:20-23,28,34-37 And the Lord said: Who shall deceive Achab, king of Israel, that he may go up, and fall at Ramoth Galaad? And one spoke words of this manner, and another otherwise. . . .

2 Chronicles 25:16 And when he spoke these things, he answered him: Art thou the king's counsellor? be quiet, lest I kill thee. And the prophet departing, said: I know that God is minded to kill thee, because thou hast done this evil, and moreover hast not hearkened to my counsel.

2 Chronicles 33:10 And the Lord spoke to his people, and they would not hearken.

2 Chronicles 36:15-17 And the Lord the God of their fathers sent to them, by the hand of his messengers, rising early, and daily admonishing them: because he spared his people and his dwelling place. . . .

Jeremiah 25:3-5 From the thirteenth year of Josias the son of Ammon king of Juda until this day: this is the three and twentieth year, the word of the Lord hath come to me, and I have spoken to you, rising before day, and speaking, and you have not hearkened. . . .

Jeremiah 26:3-5 If so be they will hearken and be converted every one from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil that I think to do unto them for the wickedness of their doings. . . .

Jeremiah 35:13-16 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not receive instruction, to obey my words, saith the Lord? . . .

Zechariah 1:3-6 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Matthew 26:21-25 And whilst they were eating, he said: Amen I say to you that one of you is about to betray me. . . .

John 6:70,71 Jesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve? And one of you is a devil. . . .

John 13:10,11,18,26 Jesus saith to him: He that is washed needeth not but to wash his feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all. . . .

Acts 1:18,25 And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed out. . . .

hardeneth

2 Chronicles 36:13 He also revolted from king Nabuchodonosor, who had made him swear by God: and he hardened his neck and his heart, from returning to the Lord the God of Israel.

Nehemiah 9:29 And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt proudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

Isaiah 48:4 For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass.

Jeremiah 17:23 But they did not hear, nor incline their ear: but hardened their neck, that they might not hear me, and might not receive instruction.

shall

Proverbs 6:15 Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:

Proverbs 28:18 He that walketh uprightly, shall be saved: he that is perverse in his ways, shall fall at once.

Isaiah 30:13,14 Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that falleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not looked for. . . .

Zechariah 7:11-14 But they would not hearken, and they turned away the shoulder to depart: and they stopped their ears, not to hear. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

Context
The Stiff-Necked will Be Destroyed
1The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.2When just men increase, the people shall rejoice: when the wicked shall bear rule, the people shall mourn.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:25
If one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his behalf: but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him? And they hearkened not to the voice of their father, because the Lord would slay them.

2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Job 9:4
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?

Proverbs 1:24
You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.

Proverbs 6:15
Six things there are, which the Lord hateth, and the seventh his soul detesteth:

Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked rise up, men shall hide themselves: when they perish, the just shall be multiplied.

Isaiah 48:4
For I knew that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is as an iron sinew, and thy forehead as brass.

Jeremiah 17:23
But they did not hear, nor incline their ear: but hardened their neck, that they might not hear me, and might not receive instruction.

Jeremiah 36:31
And I will punish him, and his seed and his servants, for their iniquities, and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Juda all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they have not heard.

Habakkuk 2:7
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee: and they be stirred up that shall tear thee, and thou shalt be a spoil to them?

Proverbs 28:28
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