Contradictions and Paradoxes in Proverbs 8:32

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Proverbs 8:32 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Proverbs 8:32. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of Proverbs, children who listen and follow the right path will be happy and blessed. It's like when you pay attention and do what is good, good things will happen to you.

Proverbs 8:32: Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways.

Contradiction with Proverbs 28:26

Contradicts reliance on the heart’s counsel versus the wisdom that comes from listening to instruction.

Proverbs 28:26: He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 17:9

Describes the heart as deceitful, unlike the call to listen and be blessed in Proverbs 8:32.

Jeremiah 17:9: The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Contradiction with Matthew 7:13

Speaks of the broad way leading to destruction, contrasting the concept of blessing from adherence in Proverbs 8:32.

Matthew 7:13: Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: [strait: or, narrow]

Contradiction with Romans 3:12

Suggests no one does good by their own means, conflicting with the idea of being blessed when following wisdom.

Romans 3:12: They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Contradiction with 1 Corinthians 1:20

Questions human wisdom, in contrast to cherishing instruction in wisdom as highlighted in Proverbs 8:32.

1 Corinthians 1:20: Where [is] the wise? where [is] the scribe? where [is] the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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