Proverbs 1:29

Hated knowledge. When they had hearts soft enough to be impressionable, they refused to permit the Spirit of God to work upon them. Now their hearts have become hardened and their characters fixed. Now it is too late. Any simulated repentance is only a desire to escape the dreadful results of their sins. Even if these men were granted another opportunity, it would produce no change.

Real forgiveness is not a mere excusing of sin, but a cleansing of the sinner (1 John 1:9). Without a genuine surrender to the instruction and control of the Holy Spirit and an earnest desire to be changed, no sinner can be saved.

Did not choose. The fear of the Lord would have been to them the beginning of saving knowledge (v. 7). These people did not want such knowledge, because it would have interfered with their enjoyment of wickedness. Now they would like to evade the inevitable consequences.