KJ2000(i)
22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But you have ignored all my counsel, and would have none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
27 When your terror comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: