³² Those who ignore instruction despise themselves,
    but those who heed admonition gain understanding.^(A)

²⁴ Because I have called and you refused,
    have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,^(A)
25 and because you have ignored all my counsel
    and would have none of my reproof,^(B)
26 I also will laugh at your calamity;
    I will mock when panic strikes you,^(C)
27 when panic strikes you like a storm
    and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
    when distress and anguish come upon you.
²⁸ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
    they will seek me diligently but will not find me.^(D)
29 Because they hated knowledge
    and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
³⁰ would have none of my counsel
    and despised all my reproof,^(E)
31 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way
    and be sated with their own devices.^(F)
32 For waywardness kills the simple,
    and the complacency of fools destroys them;^(G)
33 but those who listen to me will be secure
    and will live at ease without dread of disaster.”^(H)

¹⁵ An intelligent mind acquires knowledge,
    and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

³ O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth?
You have struck them,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to turn back.^(A)