Proverbs 1:23-32

²³If you pay attention to me when I rebuke you, I will tell you what I am thinking in my inner being; I will give you some good advice.

²⁴But when I called to you, you refused to listen. I beckoned to you to come to me, but you ignored me.

²⁵I tried to advise you, but you refused to listen to me. I tried to correct you, but you rejected what I told you.

²⁶So now, when you are experiencing troubles/disasters, I will laugh at you. When things happen that cause you to be afraid, I will make fun of you.

²⁷When calamities strike you like a big storm, when disasters hit you like a violent wind, when all kinds of things distress you and give you trouble, I will ridicule you!

²⁸Wisdom also says, “When foolish people call to me to help them, I will not answer them. They will search for me diligently/everywhere, but they will not find me.

²⁹They refused to know what things are right, and they decided not to revere Yahweh.

³⁰They would not accept my advice, and they did not pay attention when I tried to correct them.

³¹So they will endure what will result MET, DOU from the evil way they have lived/behaved and the evil things they have planned to do.

³²Those who turn away from me are stupid/foolish; they will die because of doing that.