Proverbs 1:22-33

²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? How long will scoffers delight themselves in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?

²³Turn ye at my reproof! Behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make known my words to you!

²⁴“Because I have called, and ye have refused,—Because I have stretched out my hand, and no one hath regarded.

²⁵Because ye have rejected all my counsel, And have slighted my rebuke,—

²⁶I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;

²⁷When your fear cometh upon you like a storm. And destruction overtaketh you like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.

²⁸Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer! They will seek me early, But they shall not find me!

²⁹Because they have hated knowledge, And have not chosen the fear of the LORD,—

³⁰Because they would not attend to my counsel, And have despised all my reproof,—

³¹Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own devices;

³²Yea, the turning away of the simple shall slay them, And the carelessness of fools shall destroy them.

³³But whoso hearkeneth to me shall dwell securely, And shall not be disquieted with the fear of evil.”