Proverbs 1:20-30

²⁰Wisdom crieth without; She uttereth her voice in the streets:

²¹She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: In the city she uttereth her words, saying,

²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their 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 at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

²⁷When your fear cometh as desolation, And your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish cometh upon you:

²⁸Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; They shall seek me early, 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.