Proverbs 1:24 (BSB)

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

From Proverbs 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 1:24

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 1:20-33: Solomon, having shown how dangerous it is to hearken to the temptations of Satan, here shows how dangerous it is not to hearken to the calls of God, which we shall for ever rue the neglect of. Observe, I. By whom God calls to us - by wisdom. It is wisdom that crieth without.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 1:24: Because I have called, and ye refused,.... This is to be understood not of the internal call of Wisdom, or Christ, which is by the special grace of his Spirit; is according to an eternal purpose, the fruit of everlasting love, peculiar to God's elect, and by a divine power; and is also a call to special blessings of grace, and to eternal glory; and...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 1:24: stretched . . . hand--Earnestness, especially in beseeching, is denoted by the figure (compare Job 11:13; Psa 68:31; Psa 88:9).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 1:24-27: Pro 1:24-27 The address of Wisdom now takes another course. Between Pro 1:23 and Pro 1:24 there is a pause, as between Isa 1:20 and Isa 1:21. In vain Wisdom expects that her complaints and enticements will be heard. Therefore she turns her call to repentance into a discourse announcing judgment.