PROVERBS 1:19-32

¹⁹So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

²⁰Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; she uttereth her voice in the broad places;

²¹She crieth in the chief place of concourse; at the entering in of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:

²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

²³Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

²⁴Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

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

²⁶I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

²⁷When your fear cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.

²⁸Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:

²⁹For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

³⁰They would none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof:

³¹Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

³²For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.