Warning Against Rejecting Wisdom

Proverbs chapter 1:20 - 33

Wisdom calls aloud in the street,
she raises her voice in the public squares,
at the head of the noisy streets she cried out,
in the gateways of the city she makes her speech.

How long will you simple ones
love your simple ways?
How long will mockers delight in mockery
and fools hate knowledge?
If you had responded to my rebuke,
I would have poured out my heart
to you
and made my thoughts known to you.

But since you reject me when i called
and no one gave heed when i stretched out my hand,
since you ignore all my advice
and would not accept my rebuke,
I in turn will laugh at your disaster,
I will mock when calamity
overtakes you.

When calamity overtakes you like a storm,
when disaster sweeps over you like
a whirlwind,
when distress and trouble
overwhelm you.

Then they will call to me but i will
not answer,
they will look for me but will not
find me.

Since they hated knowledge
and did not choose to fear the LORD,
since they would not accept my
advice
and spurned my rebuke,
they will eat the fruit of their ways
and be filled with the fruit of their
schemes.

For the waywardness of the simple
will kill them,
and the complacency of fools will
destroy them,
but whoever listens to me will live in
safety
and be at ease, without fear of harm.