Proverbs 1:20–33 · BSB
1:20
Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
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in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
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1:22
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
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If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
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Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
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because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,
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in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,
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when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
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Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
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For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
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They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
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So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
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But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”
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