Leeser(i)
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn back to my admonition: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Whereas I called, and ye refused; I stretched out my hand, and no man was attentive;
25 And ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would not accept my admonition:
26 Therefore I also will truly laugh at your calamity; I will deride you when your terror cometh;
27 When your terror cometh like the tempest-cloud, and your calamity hasteneth like a whirlwind; when there come upon you distress and affliction.
28 Then will they call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me;
29 For the reason that they hated knowledge, and the fear of the Lord they did not choose;
30 That they would not attend to my counsel: that they rejected all my admonition.
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and from their own counsels shall they be satisfied.
32 For the defection of the simple will slay them, and the prosperity of fools will cause them to be lost.
33 But he that hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from the dread of evil.